{"id":170820,"date":"2026-04-20T13:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170820\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:57:24","slug":"pedestrian-struck-and-killed-by-suv-on-i-78-in-berks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170820\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian struck and killed by SUV on I\u201178 in Berks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was killed Friday night when he stepped in front of a moving SUV on Interstate 78 in Berks County, state police at Hamburg said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened about 10:20 p.m. in the eastbound lanes in Tilden Township, about 3 miles before the Route 61 interchange, troopers said.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers provided this account:<\/p>\n<p>The SUV, driven by a 64-year-old North Carolina woman, was traveling in the right lane when the unidentified pedestrian entered the travel lane directly in front of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>After impact, the pedestrian was thrown onto the shoulder. The SUV sustained disabling front-end damage and came to rest on the right shoulder. The driver wasn\u2019t injured.<\/p>\n<p>Crews from the Hamburg and Shoemakersville fire companies and Hamburg Ambulance responded.<\/p>\n<p>A Berks County deputy coroner pronounced the pedestrian dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The eastbound lanes were closed until about 1:30 a.m. Saturday while troopers investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed Friday night when he stepped in front of a moving SUV on Interstate 78&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170821,"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-170820","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\/170820","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=170820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}