{"id":707802,"date":"2026-06-16T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/707802\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:59:08","slug":"i-79-closed-for-crash-investigation-in-butler-county-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/707802\/","title":{"rendered":"I-79 closed for crash investigation in Butler County, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tI-79 North will be temporarily closed in Butler County on Tuesday afternoon.PennDOT says the closure between Exit 83 (Route 528\/Evans City) and Exit 87 (Route 68\/Zelienople) will start at 2 p.m. and is expected to last for about 30 minutes.Looking for more news in your area | Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube ChannelState police will be working on a crash reconstruction during the I-79 closure.Route 19 is a possible detour for northbound drivers.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<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tJACKSON TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>I-79 North will be temporarily closed in Butler County on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>PennDOT says the closure between Exit 83 (Route 528\/Evans City) and Exit 87 (Route 68\/Zelienople) will start at 2 p.m. and is expected to last for about 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for more news in your area | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WTAE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>State police will be working on a crash reconstruction during the I-79 closure.<\/p>\n<p>Route 19 is a possible detour for northbound drivers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/get-pittsburgh-s-action-news-4-on-the-go-wtae\/44045498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I-79 North will be temporarily closed in Butler County on Tuesday afternoon.PennDOT says the closure between Exit 83&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,46195,25317,72350,305516,20422,45645,451,162944,214176,305513,176724,3,305518,15615,3234,305517,15681,305514,305515,452,453,26083,20421],"class_list":["post-707802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-butler-county","tag-closure","tag-crash-investigation","tag-crash-reconstruction","tag-evans-city","tag-exit","tag-headlines","tag-i-79","tag-interstate-79","tag-jackson-township","tag-more-news","tag-news","tag-northbound-driver","tag-penndot","tag-pennsylvania","tag-possible-detour","tag-route","tag-route-528","tag-route-68","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-tuesday-afternoon","tag-zelienople"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707802","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=707802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}