{"id":303378,"date":"2026-10-09T22:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303378\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T22:20:08","slug":"squirrel-hill-tunnel-crash-on-parkway-east-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303378\/","title":{"rendered":"Squirrel Hill Tunnel crash on Parkway East in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A crash inside the Squirrel Hill Tunnel is causing major backups for Friday evening rush-hour traffic on I-376 in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The crash happened just before 5 p.m. in the eastbound (outbound) tunnel on the Parkway East.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">At one point, PennDOT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.511pa.com\/cctv?start=0&amp;length=10&amp;filters%5B0%5D%5Bi%5D=2&amp;filters%5B0%5D%5Bs%5D=Southwestern+Region+%28Pittsburgh%29&amp;filters%5B1%5D%5Bi%5D=3&amp;filters%5B1%5D%5Bs%5D=Allegheny&amp;filters%5B2%5D%5Bi%5D=4&amp;filters%5B2%5D%5Bs%5D=I-376+Parkway+East&amp;filters%5B3%5D%5Bi%5D=5&amp;filters%5B3%5D%5Bs%5D=No&amp;order%5Bi%5D=1&amp;order%5Bdir%5D=asc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">traffic cameras<\/a> showed traffic at a standstill heading outbound from the city.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Looking for more news in your area | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WTAE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Eastbound traffic has begun to move again, but backups were stretching all the way to downtown Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Emergency dispatchers said no injuries have been reported in the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">This is a developing story. Stay with Pittsburgh&#8217;s Action News 4 for updates.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/get-pittsburgh-s-action-news-4-on-the-go-wtae\/44045498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A crash inside the Squirrel Hill Tunnel is causing major backups for Friday evening rush-hour traffic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[900,79,347,44485,124734,16977,7993,78128,2092,14130,1730,73,75,74,5749,124733,50837,1704,10254],"class_list":["post-303378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-action-news","tag-city","tag-crash","tag-eastbound","tag-friday-evening-rush-hour-traffic","tag-i-376","tag-interstate-376","tag-major-backup","tag-more-news","tag-outbound","tag-parkway-east","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-squirrel-hill-tunnel","tag-squirrel-hill-tunnel-crash","tag-standstill","tag-traffic","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303378","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=303378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}