{"id":273774,"date":"2026-08-28T06:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273774\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T06:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:56:08","slug":"dump-truck-and-tanker-collide-in-fatal-crash-on-pa-turnpike-upper-montgomery-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273774\/","title":{"rendered":"Dump truck and tanker collide in fatal crash on Pa. Turnpike | Upper Montgomery County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHITPAIN TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8212; One person died in a crash on the northeast extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike early Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The wreck happened in Montgomery County in the northbound lanes just after 2 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>A dump truck and what appears to be a small tanker truck collided in Whitpain Township.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still no word on how it happened or about the victim.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The turnpike was closed for several hours but has since reopened.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHITPAIN TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8212; One person died in a crash on the northeast extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,8653],"class_list":["post-273774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-upper-montgomery-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273774","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=273774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}