{"id":292485,"date":"2026-09-23T20:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292485\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:10:11","slug":"i-81-south-closed-in-lackawanna-county-after-crash-near-president-biden-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292485\/","title":{"rendered":"I-81 south closed in Lackawanna County after crash near President Biden Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUNMORE, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Interstate 81 Southbound in Lackawanna County has reopened following a crash near the President Biden Expressway, Exit 185.<\/p>\n<p>Significant traffic backups remain in the area, and drivers should expect delays. Motorists are encouraged to consider alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier we reported:<\/p>\n<p>Interstate 81 south is closed in Lackawanna County following a crash near the President Biden Expressway, Exit 185.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic backed up on both I-81 and Interstate 84 is being detoured onto Route 6 west, according to PennDOT.<\/p>\n<p>There is no estimate for when I-81 south will reopen.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"I-81 south has been shutdown due to an accident.png\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"364\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/089617bf-d16d-4362-8fdd-abda070bb49f-I81southhasbeenshutdownduetoanaccident.png\" width=\"648\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I-81 south has been shutdown due to an accident.png<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUNMORE, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Interstate 81 Southbound in Lackawanna County has reopened following a crash near the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-292485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292485","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=292485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}