A 61-year-old man died of injuries sustained in a Friday night crash on westbound Interstate 78 in Upper Bern Township, state police said.<\/p>\n
No information was provided on the man\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n
State police gave this account:<\/p>\n
On I-78 in the area of mile marker 25.6 at about 11:50 p.m., a vehicle was parked on the right shoulder. It was struck by another vehicle, which then overturned and struck an embankment. The driver of the striking vehicle was transported to Reading Hospital, where he was pronounced dead by medical staff. The driver of the vehicle in the shoulder, Quadarius Cameron, 25, Riverdale, Ga., was taken to the hospital with a moderate injury.<\/p>\n
A secondary crash involving two other vehicles occurred shortly after the initial accident.<\/p>\n
Shoemakersville, Hamburg and Strausstown fire departments assisted at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 61-year-old man died of injuries sustained in a Friday night crash on westbound Interstate 78 in Upper…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-194297","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194297","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=194297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}