{"id":519475,"date":"2026-01-16T03:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/519475\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T03:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:55:12","slug":"weather-to-blame-for-30-car-pileup-on-new-york-interstate-multiple-people-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/519475\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather to blame for 30-car pileup on New York interstate; multiple people injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOWN OF LAFAYETTE, New York (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwnytv.com\/2026\/01\/15\/30-vehicle-pileup-route-81-blamed-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wwnytv.com\/2026\/01\/15\/30-vehicle-pileup-route-81-blamed-weather\/\">WWNY<\/a>\/Gray News) &#8211; Bad weather is being blamed for a multi-vehicle crash that closed a portion of a busy interstate in New York on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New York State Police said seven people were rushed to area hospitals after a chain-reaction crash occurred on Interstate 81 at about 2:20 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The weather-related crash involved more than 30 vehicles, including semis, and closed I-81 southbound near the town of LaFayette.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Four people were taken to Crouse Hospital; three others were taken to Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said two people sustained serious but not life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Southbound travel lanes on I-81 were closed to all traffic for several hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WWNY via Gray Local Media, Inc. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOWN OF LAFAYETTE, New York (WWNY\/Gray News) &#8211; Bad weather is being blamed for a multi-vehicle crash that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":519476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[231383,231381,231382,5229,231376,231377,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,231379,231378,231380],"class_list":{"0":"post-519475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-30-car-crash-new-york-interstate-81","9":"tag-30-car-pileup","10":"tag-30-car-pileup-new-york-i-81","11":"tag-america","12":"tag-interstate-81-new-york","13":"tag-interstate-81-new-york-crash","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-weather-interstate-81","27":"tag-weather-interstate-81-new-york","28":"tag-weather-related-crash-interstate-81"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115902763709039610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}