{"id":124079,"date":"2026-02-26T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124079\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T13:04:10","slug":"3-appear-to-flee-scene-of-route-222-crash-in-berks-state-police-say-northern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/124079\/","title":{"rendered":"3 appear to flee scene of Route 222 crash in Berks, state police say | Northern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MAXATAWNY TWP., Pa. &#8211; Pennsylvania State Police say three people appear to have fled the scene of a multi-vehicle crash on\u00a0Route 222 in northern Berks County\u00a0Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Route 222 in Maxatawny Township was closed between Topton Road and Church Road due to the crash, according to the county&#8217;s Department of Emergency Services. The road has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p>State Police Trooper Nathan Brownback said three vehicles were involved in the wreck, with two of the vehicles colliding head-on. One of the drivers was taken to the hospital,\u00a0Brownback said.<\/p>\n<p>It appeared three people fled the scene, Trooper Brownback said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No word on what led up to the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MAXATAWNY TWP., Pa. &#8211; Pennsylvania State Police say three people appear to have fled the scene of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,13886,1704],"class_list":["post-124079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-northern-berks-county","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124079","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=124079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}