{"id":157510,"date":"2026-04-05T01:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157510\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:35:10","slug":"coroner-two-confirmed-dead-in-route-222-accident-in-berks-co-northern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/157510\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner: Two confirmed dead in Route 222 accident in Berks Co. | Northern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"6xxx Richmond Twp fd utv serious accident 222 nester_00500.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69d1b4d2a1d5a.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Mike Nester | for WFMZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>RICHMOND TWP., Pa. &#8211; The Berks County Coroner confirms two people were killed in an accident on Route 222 in Richmond Township.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the accident happened Saturday just north of Route 622.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner responded to the scene and later went to the hospital in connection with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>No additional details have been released.<\/p>\n<p>69 News has reached out to local police for more information and is awaiting a response.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Stay with 69 News for updates as we receive them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Nester | for WFMZ-TV RICHMOND TWP., Pa. &#8211; The Berks County Coroner confirms two people were killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1874,349,17147,1246,1021,206,128,130,129,12128,16035],"class_list":{"0":"post-157510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-berks-county","10":"tag-coroner","11":"tag-fatality","12":"tag-investigation","13":"tag-police","14":"tag-reading-city","15":"tag-reading-city-headlines","16":"tag-reading-city-news","17":"tag-richmond-township","18":"tag-route-222"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157510","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=157510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}