{"id":277766,"date":"2026-09-03T01:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277766\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T01:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T01:36:09","slug":"dump-truck-crashes-on-i-78-in-lehigh-county-southern-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/277766\/","title":{"rendered":"Dump truck crashes on I-78 in Lehigh County | Southern Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPPER SAUCON TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8212; A dump truck crashed on Interstate 78 in Lehigh County Wednesday afternoon, according to Pennsylvania State Police.<\/p>\n<p>The single-vehicle crash happened around 2:14 p.m. on I-78 Eastbound near mile marker 60.2, according to Lehigh County dispatchers.<\/p>\n<p>Trooper Branosky said the driver sustained minor injuries. The dump truck was empty at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the left and middle lanes were closed, with the right lane remaining open to let traffic through.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All lanes have since been reopened.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police Fogelsville is investigating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER SAUCON TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8212; A dump truck crashed on Interstate 78 in Lehigh County Wednesday afternoon, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,8178],"class_list":["post-277766","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-southern-lehigh-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277766","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=277766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}