{"id":292487,"date":"2026-09-23T20:13:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292487\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:13:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:13:58","slug":"route-724-reopens-following-overturning-of-dump-truck-in-union-twp-drivers-condition-unknown-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292487\/","title":{"rendered":"Route 724 reopens following overturning of dump truck in Union Twp., driver\u2019s condition unknown | Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNION TWP., Pa. &#8211; A truck driver was injured after a tri-axle dump truck overturned in Berks County on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Ethan Brownback said the overturned vehicle spilled gravel onto Route 724, which closed a portion of the road between Shed and Red Corner Road.<\/p>\n<p>Officials confirmed that the road reopened around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Brownback said the driver of the vehicle sustained moderate injuries and was brought to the hospital for treatment and evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>The driver\u2019s current condition and the events that led up to the accident remain unknown at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNION TWP., Pa. &#8211; A truck driver was injured after a tri-axle dump truck overturned in Berks County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[349,153,155,154,13330,24761,1224,64587,24641],"class_list":["post-292487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-berks-county","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-dump-truck","tag-overturned","tag-pennsylvania-state-police","tag-route-724","tag-union-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292487","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=292487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}