{"id":159747,"date":"2026-04-07T19:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159747\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T19:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T19:41:08","slug":"coroners-called-to-pedestrian-train-accident-in-eastern-berks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159747\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroners called to pedestrian train accident in eastern Berks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coroners were called to the scene of a pedestrian accident involving a train Tuesday afternoon in Longswamp Township.<\/p>\n<p>Initial calls came in shortly before 11:15 a.m. The incident took place near a private crossing in the 1100 block of State Street along the Norfolk Southern Reading line.<\/p>\n<p>The accident involved one man, reports said.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders called for a coroner\u2019s unit about 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coroners were called to the scene of a pedestrian accident involving a train Tuesday afternoon in Longswamp Township.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,7932,128,130,129,72257],"class_list":["post-159747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-pedestrian-killed","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-train-hits-pedestrian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159747","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=159747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}