{"id":86750,"date":"2026-01-14T18:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86750\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:36:12","slug":"truck-takes-down-wires-causes-rt-13-to-be-closed-in-bensalem-delaware-valley-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/86750\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck Takes Down Wires, Causes Rt. 13 to be Closed In Bensalem \u2013 Delaware Valley News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 14, 2026<\/p>\n<p>by Alex Lloyd Gross<\/p>\n<p>Motorists that want to travel to and from Croydon will have to use State Road as a detour, as the 4000 block of Bristol Pike has been closed to traffic. The reason, a tractor trailer took down wires and part of a telephone pole.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a power outage to a larger area once PECO arrives and finds out what needs to be done.  Police said the incident happened about 10:30 AM.  There were no injuries in this accident and no other vehicles were involved.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Alex-Gross-Advertisement-1-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46953 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Traffic is expected to be diverted for several hours. The truck was traveling south when the incident happened, but both lanes of travel are affected.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 14, 2026 by Alex Lloyd Gross Motorists that want to travel to and from Croydon will have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-86750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86750","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=86750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}