{"id":144137,"date":"2026-03-20T22:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144137\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:29:08","slug":"mini-bus-and-vehicle-collide-in-eastern-berks-several-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144137\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini bus and vehicle collide in eastern Berks, several injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A mini school bus and a passenger vehicle collided Friday afternoon in Colebrookdale Township, trapping and injuring several occupants of the vehicle, according to emergency reports.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports about 2:15 p.m. said the crash occurred in the 400 block of Montgomery Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The school bus was unoccupied aside from the driver, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports said one person was injured and barely conscious. Emergency workers arriving at the scene noted there were people trapped in the vehicle,and called in additional medical units.<\/p>\n<p>Crews used specialized tools to access and remove four trapped victims, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>The last victim was reportedly freed from the vehicle about 2:40 p.m. There was no word on the extent of their injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Further information was unavailable Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mini school bus and a passenger vehicle collided Friday afternoon in Colebrookdale Township, trapping and injuring several&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-144137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","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\/144137","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=144137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}