{"id":67900,"date":"2025-12-22T21:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67900\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T21:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T21:35:08","slug":"crash-causes-heavy-traffic-on-pennsylvania-turnpike-near-bensalem-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/67900\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash causes heavy traffic on Pennsylvania Turnpike near Bensalem exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic is backed up on the Pennsylvania Turnpike eastbound after a major accident near the Bensalem exit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Three people were taken to the hospital, officials said, including at least one person who was extricated from a white van.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews were on the scene of the crash between the Willow Grove and Bensalem exits, which involved at least three vehicles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All eastbound lanes were shut down, but some traffic appears to be getting by.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chopper 3 was over the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/bensalem-chopper-turnpike-crash.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"First responders at the scene of a crash on the PA Turnpike between Willow Grove and Bensalem \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>The crash caused a significant backup in the eastbound lanes, and drivers appeared to be slowing down to see the crash from the westbound lanes as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Traffic is backed up on the Pennsylvania Turnpike eastbound after a major accident near the Bensalem exit.\u00a0 Three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194,197,4696],"class_list":["post-67900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township","tag-bucks-county","tag-pennsylvania-turnpike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67900","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=67900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}