{"id":99898,"date":"2026-01-29T17:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99898\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:24:09","slug":"salt-truck-gets-wedged-under-i-78-overpass-on-lehigh-street-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/99898\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt truck gets wedged under I-78 overpass on Lehigh Street, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7SJJGGBQSNDCNLJXBRLLLIFKXM\">A salt truck driver escaped serious injury last weekend when the vehicle\u2019s bed became wedged beneath the Interstate 78 overpass in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Allentown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Allentown\"> Allentown<\/a>, city police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FJQ3SE2LAJGFJG5FKMH35R2UVA\">Assistant Chief of Police Operations Michael Becker Jr. said the collision happened just before 8:15 a.m. Saturday along Lehigh Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EYQ5JYOQ3NGRTC7HSCOVQPEYCU\">The tri-axle driver was attempting to drive under the overpass when the truck\u2019s bed became wedged underneath, Becker said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"FYWAZ5VN75BP7BGSBATINVKK6I\">Traffic was diverted around the accident scene as crews worked to free the truck. The driver was not injured in the accident, Becker said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VDHKYPQY5BE7BJOS2MQTHUULMM\">Once freed, the driver drove the truck from the scene, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A salt truck driver escaped serious injury last weekend when the vehicle\u2019s bed became wedged beneath the Interstate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6269,119,121,120,591],"class_list":{"0":"post-99898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-ala2014032416204504","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-merlinmigration2014"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99898","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=99898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}