{"id":140983,"date":"2026-03-17T20:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140983\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T20:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:13:08","slug":"motor-vehicle-accident-shuts-down-section-of-route-724-in-berks-co-southern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140983\/","title":{"rendered":"Motor vehicle accident shuts down section of Route 724 in Berks Co. | Southern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"road closed with police lights\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"900\" height=\"508\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69b9ad1cdd737.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>CUMRU TWP., Pa. &#8211; Berks County Department of Emergency Services told 69 News that part of Route 724 is closed due to a motor vehicle accident.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the road is closed between Rt. 10 and I-176. The roadway will be closed for an extended period.<\/p>\n<p>Police ask drivers to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>911 dispatchers say fire, police, and EMS are on scene.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Stick with 69 News for more updates as we receive them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CUMRU TWP., Pa. &#8211; Berks County Department of Emergency Services told 69 News that part of Route 724&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,6512,4032,6064,7778,56525,206,128,130,129,6654,64587,1704],"class_list":["post-140983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-cumru-township","tag-emergency-services","tag-ems","tag-fire-department","tag-motor-vehicle-accident","tag-police","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-road-closure","tag-route-724","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140983","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=140983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}