{"id":66237,"date":"2025-12-20T17:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66237\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T17:06:06","slug":"tractor-trailer-slides-off-i-78-in-icy-overnight-conditions-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66237\/","title":{"rendered":"Tractor trailer slides off I-78 in icy overnight conditions | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOWER SAUCON TWP., Pa. &#8211; Police say black ice is likely to blame for an early morning tractor trailer accident on I-78.<\/p>\n<p>The rig traveled off the highway and down an embankment in Lower Saucon Township just before 1:15 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Icy conditions on the stretch of I-78 caused the roadway to be closed for about an hour while PennDot crews responded with salt trucks to improve travel conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The truck driver was not seriously injured, and there were still backups heading east and westbound on 78 until just after 9 a.m. Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER SAUCON TWP., Pa. &#8211; Police say black ice is likely to blame for an early morning tractor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,2088,805],"class_list":{"0":"post-66237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-area","13":"tag-lehighvalley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66237","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=66237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}