{"id":261199,"date":"2026-08-07T20:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261199\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:13:10","slug":"route-309-closed-in-lehigh-county-after-fatal-2-vehicle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261199\/","title":{"rendered":"Route 309 closed in Lehigh County after fatal 2-vehicle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stretch of Route 309 is closed in northern Lehigh County on Friday afternoon after a fatal crash.<\/p>\n<p>State police are on the scene at Route 309 and Gun Club Road in Lynn Township, Trooper Nathan Branosky said in a social media post. Two vehicles were involved, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The highway is closed in both directions, and traffic is being detoured, according to Branosky. Motorists are advised to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Lehigh Valley Breaking News Facebook page, the crash involved two tractor-trailers that crashed head-on, and one of the tractor-trailers was on top of the other.<\/p>\n<p>No further details were immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A stretch of Route 309 is closed in northern Lehigh County on Friday afternoon after a fatal crash.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-261199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}