{"id":1619,"date":"2025-10-15T12:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1619\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T12:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:47:11","slug":"reading-man-dead-after-a-detached-car-wheel-hits-windshield-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/1619\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading man dead after a detached car wheel hits windshield | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A Reading man died after a wheel that had detached from a car hit the windshield of a car he was in.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Diaz, 49, is dead after the crash, according to Pennsylvania State Police.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers were sent to a crash on the 1400 block of U.S. Highway 15 in Armstrong Township, Lycoming County on Sept. 1, state police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>A car was driving north on U.S. Highway 15 in the left travel lane when the driver\u2019s side front wheel separated from the vehicle, state police said.<\/p>\n<p>The wheel bounced over the concrete barrier into the path of an SUV which was traveling south on U.S. Highway 15, according to state police.<\/p>\n<p>State police said the wheel hit the SUV\u2019s passenger\u2019s -side windshield and struck Diaz, who was a front-seat passenger.<\/p>\n<p>The SUV\u2019s driver and another passenger was hurt in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the car that the wheel detached from was not hurt, state police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A Reading man died after a wheel that had detached from a car hit the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1605,1602,1603,1018,1606,1224,736,128,130,129,1604],"class_list":{"0":"post-1619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-armstrong-township","9":"tag-car-accident","10":"tag-detached-wheel","11":"tag-fatalities","12":"tag-lycoming-county","13":"tag-pennsylvania-state-police","14":"tag-reading","15":"tag-reading-city","16":"tag-reading-city-headlines","17":"tag-reading-city-news","18":"tag-u-s-highway-15"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619","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=1619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}