This may trigger gridlock this afternoon. In case you usually journey down the Pennsylvania Turnpike for the night commute, you will not have the ability to do this.

An accident has closed the Westbound facet of the roadway in Feasterville, Pa. It’s closed as of 4:30 pm on Tuesday (September 27).

The accident, which was first reported round 2 pm, occurred close to mile marker 349, 94.5 PST’s visitors group tells us.

Footage from space tv choppers, together with 6ABC’s Chopper 6, confirmed that the crash appeared to contain a dump truck. Soiled was everywhere in the roadway so cleanup will take a while.

As of 4:15 pm, the roadway was nonetheless closed.

The detour across the scene takes motorists onto Route 1 (South). You’ll get again on the roadway within the Willow Grove space (interchange 343). As you possibly can think about route 1 within the space of Rockhill Drive and Avenue Highway may be very heavy as effectively due to this crash.

We do not know when the roadway will reopen.