{"id":162583,"date":"2026-04-10T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162583\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:18:10","slug":"fatal-crash-closes-i-78-in-bethel-twp-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162583\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal crash closes I-78 in Bethel Twp. | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHEL TWP., Pa. &#8211; A fatal accident shut down I-78 in northern Berks County late Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It happened just before 11:30 a.m. in the eastbound lanes past Exit #13 for Bethel.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency officials confirmed the coroner&#8217;s office has been called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>I-78 is currently closed eastbound between exits #13 and #15.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There is no word at this time on the circumstances surrounding the crash.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back here for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHEL TWP., Pa. &#8211; A fatal accident shut down I-78 in northern Berks County late Friday morning. It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,73380,44338,28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-162583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-bethel-twp","tag-interstate-78-in-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","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\/162583","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=162583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}