{"id":89540,"date":"2026-01-17T17:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89540\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T17:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T17:21:09","slug":"multi-vehicle-crash-closes-i-78-near-berks-lehigh-line-berks-regional-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89540\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-vehicle crash closes I-78 near Berks\/Lehigh line | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GREENWICH TWP., Pa. &#8211; As a winter storm makes its way through the region, an accident involving a dozen vehicles is causing major backups on I-78 near the Berks\/Lehigh County line.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened this morning in the westbound lanes\u00a0near mile marker 39.1 in Greenwich Township, Berks County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Initial emergency dispatches called for a multi-vehicle crash in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) confirm multiple vehicles were either disabled or piled up between Exits #35 and #40 following the crash that happened just before 8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Multi-vehicle crash closes I-78 near Berks\/Lehigh line\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/696bbcc079e4d.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Sydney Kay &#8211; WFMZ-TV <\/p>\n<p>Trooper Ethan Brownback with PSP confirmed the 12-vehicle crash with entrapment involved four commercial vehicles and eight passenger cars.<\/p>\n<p>I-78 is currently closed westbound between exits #45 and #35.<\/p>\n<p>The eastbound lanes are closed at Exit #35, according to PSP.<\/p>\n<p>It is not known at this time how many people were injured.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Multi-vehicle crash closes I-78 near Berks\/Lehigh line\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/696bbce066c7a.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Sydney Kay &#8211; WFMZ-TV <\/p>\n<p>Drivers are advised to expect delays in the area and follow posted detours.<\/p>\n<p>View real-time roadway conditions on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/traffic\/i78\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">69 News PennDOT traffic camera page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREENWICH TWP., Pa. &#8211; As a winter storm makes its way through the region, an accident involving a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,349,44339,44338,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-89540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-berks-county","12":"tag-greenwich-twp","13":"tag-interstate-78-in-pennsylvania","14":"tag-pennsylvania"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89540","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=89540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}