{"id":116293,"date":"2026-02-17T18:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116293\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:59:08","slug":"woman-dies-after-being-struck-by-pickup-truck-in-boscovs-lot-in-exeter-updated-reading-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/116293\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after being struck by pickup truck in Boscov\u2019s lot in Exeter [updated] \u2013 Reading Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 76-year-old Berks County woman was the pedestrian who was fatally struck Monday afternoon by a pickup truck in the parking lot of Boscov\u2019s East in Exeter Township, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Ann Arena of Caernarvon Township was pronounced dead in Reading Hospital at 3:01 p.m. Monday by a staff doctor, Berks County Coroner Matthew Stitzel said. A determination on the cause and manner of death is pending further investigation, he said.<\/p>\n<p>A second pedestrian, also a woman, was also struck and injured, but her condition wasn\u2019t immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>The truck was turning into a travel lane in front of the store at 4500 Perkiomen Ave. about 2:15 p.m. when it struck both women, who were crossing the lot, Exeter police said.<\/p>\n<p>Both women were taken by ambulance to Reading Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Police withheld the name of the other woman.<\/p>\n<p>The pickup truck driver remained at the scene and was cooperative with the police.<\/p>\n<p>The Exeter police department\u2019s traffic safety unit is continuing to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who witnessed the crash or has information related to it is asked to contact Exeter police at 610-779-1490.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 76-year-old Berks County woman was the pedestrian who was fatally struck Monday afternoon by a pickup truck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,1411,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-116293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-exeter-township","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}