A truck driver from Texas has been arrested in the fatal hit-and-run of a man who was struck while working on his vehicle last week on Interstate 78 in Bethel Township.<\/p>\n
State police said Ameer Nassar, 25, of Houston was located in Louisiana and returned to Berks County.<\/p>\n
Nassar was committed to Berks County Jail in lieu of $30,000 bail following arraignment Thursday before District Judge\u00a0 Andrea J. Book.<\/p>\n
Truck driver Phillip D. Henderson, 33, of Bessemer, Fla., was pronounced dead April 10 at 12:20 p.m. after he was struck on the interstate, officials said.<\/p>\n
Nassar is charged with accidents involving death or personal injury; accidents involving damage to attended vehicle; failure to stop and give information\/render aid; and failure to notify police of an accident resulting in injury or death.<\/p>\n
Troopers said investigators went to Louisiana and processed Nassar\u2019s truck.<\/p>\n
They gave this account:<\/p>\n
Henderson was out of his vehicle fixing straps on its flatbed trailer on the eastbound shoulder of the highway about a half-mile east of the Bethel interchange (Exit 13, Route 501) about 11:15 a.m.<\/p>\n
He was struck by Nassar\u2019s truck, which was traveling in the right lane, and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Nassar did not stop.<\/p>\n
The interstate was closed for several hours after the incident.<\/p>\n
Troopers had appealed to the public for help, especially requesting dash-cam video from anyone traveling eastbound on I-78 in that area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A truck driver from Texas has been arrested in the fatal hit-and-run of a man who was struck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-168780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","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\/168780","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=168780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}