{"id":292499,"date":"2026-09-23T20:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292499\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:36:09","slug":"road-reopened-after-crash-on-i-81-south-in-scranton-delays-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292499\/","title":{"rendered":"Road reopened after crash on I-81 south in Scranton; delays remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced that Interstate 81 southbound near the President Biden Expressway in Scranton has reopened following a crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease be advised that significant traffic backups remain and delays are expected. Drivers should consider taking alternate routes,\u201d PennDOT announced in a 3 p.m. release.<\/p>\n<p>The crash involved both a car and a boat, according to scanner reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced that Interstate 81 southbound near the President Biden Expressway in Scranton has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[202,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-292499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292499","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=292499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}