{"id":313428,"date":"2026-10-24T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313428\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T14:12:09","slug":"overturned-tanker-truck-slows-traffic-in-robinson-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313428\/","title":{"rendered":"Overturned tanker truck slows traffic in Robinson Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A tanker truck overturned early Saturday morning on the ramp from Route 51 to Interstate 79.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792851129_658_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Nick Matoney\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>KENNEDY TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A tanker truck overturned early Saturday morning on the ramp from Route 51 to Interstate 79 in Robinson Township.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Pittsburgh\u2019s Action Traffic\u2019s Sam Hall was on the scene, reporting that a leak had also been reported.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Both the driver of the vehicle and a member of the local volunteer fire department said the material leaking was nontoxic and nonhazardous.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">It was not immediately known how long it might take to upright the tanker truck. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The southbound lanes of Route 51 were shut down while crews were on the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A tanker truck overturned early Saturday morning on the ramp from Route 51 to Interstate 79. KENNEDY TOWNSHIP,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23997,3602,127998,127999,16414,73,75,74,53191,26989,5607,114247,2581,45017,1704,6967,10254],"class_list":["post-313428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-early-saturday-morning","tag-interstate","tag-local-volunteer-fire-department","tag-material-leaking","tag-member","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-ramp","tag-robinson-township","tag-route","tag-sam-hall","tag-scene","tag-tanker-truck","tag-traffic","tag-vehicle","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313428","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=313428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}