A 45-year-old man was hospitalized in critical condition after he was struck by a Fleetwood Police Department vehicle early Monday.<\/p>\n
The incident happened just after midnight in the first block of West Main Street, according to Northern Berks Regional police, who were called to assist.<\/p>\n
According to police:<\/p>\n
The pedestrian, whose identity police did not release, walked out of an establishment in the first block of West Main Street and into the westbound lane.<\/p>\n
A Fleetwood police officer was driving westbound and the officer\u2019s vehicle struck the pedestrian. The pedestrian was pushed several feet toward the sidewalk.<\/p>\n
Police said the pedestrian was conscious and speaking following the accident, and was transported to a local hospital where he was listed in critical condition.<\/p>\n
Further information was not immediately available.<\/p>\n
The incident remains under investigation. State police were called to the scene to assist with reconstructing the accident.<\/p>\n
Anyone who has information about the incident is asked to contact Northern Berks Regional police at 610-926-2999,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 45-year-old man was hospitalized in critical condition after he was struck by a Fleetwood Police Department vehicle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[202,182,139,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-164586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","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\/164586","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=164586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164586\/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=164586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}