{"id":18658,"date":"2025-10-29T12:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/18658\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:40:06","slug":"route-12-closed-after-utility-pole-downed-in-berks-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/18658\/","title":{"rendered":"Route 12 closed after utility pole downed in Berks crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Route 12 is expected to remain closed between Spring Valley Road and Elizabeth Avenue through the morning rush after a crash took down a utility pole, Berks County emergency officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened shortly after 6:30 a.m. at Elizabeth Avenue and Pricetown Road, which is Route 12, in Alsace Township. A struck utility pole came down and is blocking the road.<\/p>\n<p>Fire police and state police are on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Route 12 is expected to remain closed between Spring Valley Road and Elizabeth Avenue through the morning rush&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7673,349,182,973,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-18658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-alsace-township","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-muhlenberg-township","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\/18658","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=18658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}