{"id":170447,"date":"2026-04-20T01:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170447\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:01:11","slug":"coroner-identifies-man-killed-in-penn-township-motorcycle-accident-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170447\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner identifies man killed in Penn Township motorcycle accident | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENN TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8211; The Berks County Coroner has identified a man who died in a motorcycle accident on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alex Seigfried, 24, of Bernville was pronounced dead by doctors at Reading Hospital at 7:37 p.m., according to the coroner&#8217;s office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials say that the accident happened on Garfield Road in Penn Township, where Seigfried&#8217;s motorcycle was travelling westbound when it collided with another motorcycle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the accident is ongoing. An autopsy is scheduled to be performed next week at Reading Hospital, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Coroner\u2019s Office was assisted by the Pennsylvania State Police, Hamburg.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or has information is encouraged to contact the Pennsylvania State Police, Hamburg, at 610-562-6885.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENN TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8211; The Berks County Coroner has identified a man who died in a motorcycle accident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-170447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","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\/170447","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=170447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}