{"id":292601,"date":"2026-09-23T23:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292601\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T23:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:28:07","slug":"crash-ties-up-traffic-on-i-81-south-in-lackawanna-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/292601\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash ties up traffic on I-81 South in Lackawanna County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crash happened shortly after 1 p.m. Wednesday along I-81 South in Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 A crash is tying up traffic on I-81 in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n<p>Police say two vehicles collided in the Southbound lanes in Scranton around 1:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>There is no word yet on whether anyone was hurt.<\/p>\n<p>            <img class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/aa73fcec-9cf1-4248-83d9-21b44d440748_1140x641.jpg\"   alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A portion of I-81 South was closed for about an hour after the crash; it has since reopened, but officials say there will be significant delays.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are advised to consider taking alternate routes.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story; check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crash happened shortly after 1 p.m. Wednesday along I-81 South in Scranton. LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-292601","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\/292601","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=292601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}