{"id":162492,"date":"2026-04-10T16:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162492\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:17:10","slug":"i-78-eastbound-closed-in-northwestern-berks-after-fatal-pedestrian-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162492\/","title":{"rendered":"I-78 eastbound closed in northwestern Berks after fatal pedestrian accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eastbound Interstate 78 is closed at the Bethel exit in northwestern Berks County after a person was fatally struck on the highway, emergency officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened about a half-mile east of the Bethel interchange (exit 13, Route 501), officials said.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle shortly after 11:15 a.m. It wasn\u2019t immediately clear why the person was on the interstate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eastbound Interstate 78 is closed at the Bethel exit in northwestern Berks County after a person was fatally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63028,"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-162492","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\/162492","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=162492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}