{"id":28282,"date":"2026-03-20T13:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/28282\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:36:08","slug":"interstate-40-westbound-in-lebanon-shut-down-due-to-serious-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/28282\/","title":{"rendered":"Interstate 40 westbound in Lebanon shut down due to &#8216;serious&#8217; crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A serious injury crash has blocked all westbound lanes on Interstate 40 near South Hartmann Drive and mile-marker 236 in Lebanon, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash was reported around 7:30 a.m., March 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Traffic is being diverted across the South Hartmann Drive exit and back on I-40, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Extended delays are expected, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lebanon Police and the Tennessee Highway Patrol are on the scene. The highway patrol will investigate the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Tennessean will provide more information as details become available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/local\/wilson\/lebanon\/2026\/03\/20\/interstate-40-westbound-in-lebanon-shut-down-due-to-crash\/89242269007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Interstate 40 westbound in Lebanon shut down due to crash;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Interstate 40 westbound in Lebanon shut down due to crash&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Interstate 40 westbound in Lebanon shut down due to crash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A serious injury crash has blocked all westbound lanes on Interstate 40 near South Hartmann Drive and mile-marker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[13250,93,13246,13249,13247,13248],"class_list":{"0":"post-28282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-interstate-40","9":"tag-lebanon","10":"tag-lebanon-police","11":"tag-serious-injury","12":"tag-tennessee-highway-patrol","13":"tag-westbound-lanes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116261773814606340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}