{"id":859411,"date":"2026-09-24T21:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859411\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T21:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:24:13","slug":"i-79-crash-in-south-fayette-township-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/859411\/","title":{"rendered":"I-79 crash in South Fayette Township, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I-79 crash in South Fayette Township causing long delays<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/news-team\/c360cb38-2137-4eeb-9644-1c830309ce44\" aria-label=\"Andrew Stockey profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/c360cb38-2137-4eeb-9644-1c830309ce44_1657224497.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Andrew Stockey\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/news-team\/0506fa2f-65c6-4e78-8fd9-6a0d60fc54b9\" aria-label=\"Shannon Perrine profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0506fa2f-65c6-4e78-8fd9-6a0d60fc54b9_1516984437.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Shannon Perrine\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>SOUTH FAYETTE TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A crash on Interstate 79 is causing major backups stretching for miles during the Thursday evening rush hour.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The crash happened in South Fayette Township, Allegheny County. A PennDOT traffic camera showed a car on its side in the northbound lanes.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">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 data-node-id=\"3\">Emergency dispatchers said one person was taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Northbound traffic is reduced to a single lane as emergency responders remain at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Backups were extending all the way into Washington County.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\"><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 crash in South Fayette Township causing long delays SOUTH FAYETTE TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 A crash on Interstate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":859412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,15441,18276,53438,451,162944,362755,8325,362757,176724,3,318809,362758,3234,362754,362756,362759,452,453,9564,14512,239256,79961],"class_list":["post-859411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-crash","tag-download","tag-emergency-responder","tag-headlines","tag-i-79","tag-i-79-crash","tag-lane","tag-major-backup","tag-more-news","tag-news","tag-northbound-traffic","tag-penndot-traffic-camera","tag-pennsylvania","tag-south-fayette","tag-south-fayette-township","tag-thursday-evening-rush-hour","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-washington-county","tag-way","tag-western-pa","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859411","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=859411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}