A 71-year-old woman was fatally struck by an SUV Friday afternoon in front of the Walmart-anchored shopping center in Wyomissing, police said.<\/p>\n
Eugenia Polonski of Reading was pronounced dead in Reading Hospital shortly after the 1:15 p.m. accident at the State Hill Road entrance of Berkshire Square shopping center, Wyomissing police Chief John G. Phillips said in a press release.<\/p>\n
According to police:<\/p>\n
Officers responded to the report of a pedestrian accident. They learned\u00a0 Polonski was struck by an SUV driven by Margo Lemke, 60, of Molina, Ill.. Polonski was taken by ambulance to Reading Hospital, where a staff doctor pronounced her dead.<\/p>\n
A Pennsylvania State Police accident reconstruction team was called in to assist Wyomissing police with the investigation. State HIll Road was closed between Berkshire Boulevard and Colony Drive until about 4 p.m. while the investigation was taking place.<\/p>\n
After consulting with the Berks County district attorney\u2019s office, Wyomissing police cited Lemke under the section of the Pennsylvania Vehicle Code titled \u201cDuties at Stop Signs.\u201d Accident details were unavailable.<\/p>\n
Molina was taken before District Judge David Yoch, where she pleaded guilty to the offense.<\/p>\n
Wyomissing police were assisted by West Reading and Spring Township police departments and the Wyomissing and Spring fire departments as well as fire police from several jurisdictions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Wyomissing Police Department remains committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of the community and encourages everyone to remain vigilant while either walking or driving upon the roadways,\u201d Phillips said in the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 71-year-old woman was fatally struck by an SUV Friday afternoon in front of the Walmart-anchored shopping center…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,182,139,28,128,130,129,706,133],"class_list":["post-131739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg","tag-wyomissing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131739","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=131739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131739\/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=131739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}