\n\t\t\t\t\t\tInterstate 279 (Parkway North) was closed to southbound traffic for several hours Thursday evening because of an overturned truck in Allegheny County.Crash on Parkway North: See the video aboveA tractor-trailer crashed and rolled onto its side, causing PennDOT to close southbound I-279 between I-79 and Exit 8 (Camp Horne Road).Pennsylvania State Police said the truck was carrying approximately 46,000 pounds of steel coils. No injuries were reported.At one point, southbound traffic backups were stretching north of the Wexford exit on I-79. The Pittsburgh Penguins delayed the start of their game against the Montreal Canadiens at PPG Paints Arena until 7:30 p.m. because of the crash.All lanes have since reopened.”It was moving very slowly. I’ve been in traffic for the last hour, at least,\u201d Cameron Huffmyer told Pittsburgh\u2019s Action News 4 at a gas station off of Mt Nebo Road. For Huffmyer, what should\u2019ve been a 15-minute drive from Warrendale to West View turned into an hour. “I took down 79, and I was going to try to go on 279, but obviously it was closed. So I kept going and I\u2019m down at Mt. Nebo now,\u201d Huffmyer said. Though it’s unclear if weather played a part in the crash, a salt truck was on scene treating the road. Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Interstate 279 (Parkway North) was closed to southbound traffic for several hours Thursday evening because of an overturned truck in Allegheny County.<\/p>\n
Crash on Parkway North: See the video above<\/p>\n
A tractor-trailer crashed and rolled onto its side, causing PennDOT to close southbound I-279 between I-79 and Exit 8 (Camp Horne Road).<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania State Police said the truck was carrying approximately 46,000 pounds of steel coils. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
At one point, southbound traffic backups were stretching north of the Wexford exit on I-79. The Pittsburgh Penguins delayed the start of their game against the Montreal Canadiens at PPG Paints Arena until 7:30 p.m. because of the crash.<\/p>\n
All lanes have since reopened.<\/p>\n
“It was moving very slowly. I’ve been in traffic for the last hour, at least,\u201d Cameron Huffmyer told Pittsburgh\u2019s Action News 4 at a gas station off of Mt Nebo Road. <\/p>\n
For Huffmyer, what should\u2019ve been a 15-minute drive from Warrendale to West View turned into an hour. <\/p>\n
“I took down 79, and I was going to try to go on 279, but obviously it was closed. So I kept going and I\u2019m down at Mt. Nebo now,\u201d Huffmyer said. <\/p>\n
Though it’s unclear if weather played a part in the crash, a salt truck was on scene treating the road. <\/p>\n
Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interstate 279 (Parkway North) was closed to southbound traffic for several hours Thursday evening because of an overturned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41515,14854,4,450,172070,25317,45645,451,172071,162944,18413,3,172073,172072,15615,28309,28129,452,453,15689,2987,13911],"class_list":{"0":"post-343660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-allegheny-county","9":"tag-area","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-breakingnews","12":"tag-camp-horne-road","13":"tag-closure","14":"tag-exit","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-i-279","17":"tag-i-79","18":"tag-interstate","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-ohio-township","21":"tag-parkway-north","22":"tag-penndot","23":"tag-side","24":"tag-southbound-lane","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories","27":"tag-tractor-trailer","28":"tag-traffic","29":"tag-truck"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}