{"id":815657,"date":"2026-08-16T16:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/815657\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T16:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T16:04:14","slug":"multiple-crashes-on-i-87-and-south-smithfield-road-near-knightdale-under-investigation-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/815657\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple crashes on I-87 and South Smithfield Road near Knightdale under investigation :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WRAL Breaking News Tracker was at the scene of multiple crashes in Wake County overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent crash occurred before 4 a.m. on Sunday on South Smithfield Road near Walton Road in Knightdale. The road reopened by 7 a.m., and video showed a black vehicle upside down on a tow truck.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/22a43ac5-f15c-4e87-b70f-68d797e4e753.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>WRAL News is working to learn more about what led to the crash and if anyone was injured.<\/p>\n<p>The North Carolina State Highway Patrol is also investigating a crash that blocked part of Interstate 87 near Knightdale overnight.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened in the northbound lanes of I-87 around 11:45 p.m. on Saturday between the\u00a0Wendell Falls Parkway and South Smithfield Road exits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/e5e4d628-e9ae-54e3-a0f0-057fd07e1728.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The WRAL Breaking News Tracker captured video of a badly damaged truck.\u00a0Fortunately, officials said everyone involved in the crash is\u00a0expected to be okay.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WRAL Breaking News Tracker was at the scene of multiple crashes in Wake County overnight. The most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,15441,451,3,452,453,2987],"class_list":["post-815657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-crash","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815657","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=815657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}