{"id":68031,"date":"2025-12-23T00:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/68031\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:07:09","slug":"why-is-the-pa-turnpike-backed-up-in-bensalem-and-willow-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/68031\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the PA turnpike backed up in Bensalem AND Willow Grove?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A crash has closed two left lanes eastbound on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, causing delays from Bensalem to Willow Grove, according to a travel advisory from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paturnpike.com\/traveling\/travel-advisories\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:turnpike commission;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">turnpike commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">I-276 is backed up from the Bensalem Interchange to the Neshaminy Falls Mainline Toll Plaza following a crash that took place at approximately 2:29 p.m., information and a review of live traffic camera footage on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.511pa.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:www.511pa.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">www.511pa.com<\/a> shows.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Traffic camera footage shows delays caused by a crash on I-276 near the Bensalem Interchange and Willow Grove interchange exits at about 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 22 closing two left lanes of the eastbound Pennsylvania Turnpike.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"542\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/fff5ed2b0c9efe7e2e48823234cbe7cb.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Traffic camera footage shows delays caused by a crash on I-276 near the Bensalem Interchange and Willow Grove interchange exits at about 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 22 closing two left lanes of the eastbound Pennsylvania Turnpike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cameras on the traffic condition tracking website closest to where the accident is noted to have taken place are currently not available.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pennsylvania State Police confired the three-vehicle crash entrapped three individuals, who were then removed and transported to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital. No information about their current condition was available as of 4:33 p.m. on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Turnpike spokesman Crispin Havener said in an email that the crash occurred near milepost 350.8 eastbound on I-276, between the Willow Grove Exit 343 and Bensalem Exit 351 and motorists are advised to use the following detour:<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Re-enter PA Turnpike at the Bensalem Interchange #351<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Bucks County Courier Times: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyburbs.com\/story\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/22\/crash-in-bensalem-delays-pa-turnpike-eastbound-monday-willow-grove\/87886657007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Crash in Bensalem delays PA Turnpike eastbound Monday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Crash in Bensalem delays PA Turnpike eastbound Monday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crash has closed two left lanes eastbound on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, causing delays from Bensalem to Willow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194,4696,27380,36008,36007],"class_list":["post-68031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township","tag-pennsylvania-turnpike","tag-travel-advisory","tag-turnpike-commission","tag-willow-grove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68031","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=68031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}