Motorists during two-hour closure were advised to find alternate routes. One lane opened at 6 o'clock and the other about 8.
A northbound accident between the Lansdale, Pa., and Quakertown, Pa., exits at 4 o'clock this morning shut the northeast extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike until 6 o'clock, Pennsylvania State Police at King of Prussia report.
The left lane opened, but the right lane remained closed until just before 8 to clean up debris and a fluid spill after a commercial vehicle rear-ended another commercial vehicle near mile marker 37, police said. No one was hurt in the crash.
Delays at 6 were three miles and motorists heading toward the Lehigh Valley from Philadelphia were advised to seek alternate routes, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said. The delay was still at two miles just after the highway fully reopened, PennDOT said.