{"id":148499,"date":"2026-03-25T22:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148499\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T22:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T22:48:26","slug":"car-splits-in-two-after-crash-into-utility-pole-in-reading-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/148499\/","title":{"rendered":"Car splits in two after crash into utility pole in Reading | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa.- Maria Veloz came to visit her daughter. But instead, she walked into this. A car split in two after hitting a utility pole, a scene she said she had never seen before.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very ugly accident\u2026 very ugly. I&#8217;ve never seen anything like that,\u201d said Veloz of Reading.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It happened just before 2 p.m. Wednesday near North Front and Exeter streets in Reading.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary reports say a car slammed into a utility pole with so much force it snapped it in half and left the vehicle overturned. Despite the damage, there are no reports of serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash also brought in crews working to replace the damaged pole.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Car mangled in violent Reading crash\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69c434c25e23c.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Chad Blimline | WFMZ-TV <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cToday we had a car hit a pole, so we&#8217;re here to change that pole,\u201d said John Francis of Baldwin Electric.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin Electric workers said they responded immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a team effort of our shop getting us all lined up to be able to get out here with the trucks and get them back up and running, and keep them back up and running,\u201d Francis explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For now, crews say they will put a temporary fix in place.\u2028<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s going to take us a couple hours to get it temporary up, and then we&#8217;re going to come back in, set a new pole, and get everything permanent,\u201d Francis added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa.- Maria Veloz came to visit her daughter. But instead, she walked into this. A car split&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[347,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-148499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-crash","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148499","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=148499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}