{"id":195860,"date":"2026-05-18T19:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195860\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T19:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T19:32:07","slug":"cpr-attempted-in-fatal-reading-motorcyclist-crash-in-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/195860\/","title":{"rendered":"CPR Attempted In Fatal Reading Motorcyclist Crash In Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency crews were dispatched to the intersection of Shartlesville Road and Bernville Road in Penn Township at 1:51 p.m. on Sunday, May 17, for a crash involving a vehicle and motorcycle, according to dispatch records.<\/p>\n<p>CPR was in progress at the scene, dispatchers noted. Pennsylvania State Police later ordered an extended road closure around 3:08 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office confirmed a 38-year-old Reading man died from multiple blunt force injuries. His death was ruled accidental.<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s identity has not been released pending notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n<p>Additional details about the crash have not been released as the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Details about the man\u2019s life were not immediately available. His loved ones are invited to share information with Daily Voice by emailing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyvoice.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"8de7fde4e6e2ffeccde9ece4e1f4fbe2e4eee8a3eee2e0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e-click-here-follow-btn\" data-testid=\"bottom-paragraph\">\n            <a class=\"e-email-signup\" js-follow-button=\"\" data-testid=\"article-click-here-to-subscribe\">Click here<\/a><br \/>\n            to follow Daily Voice<\/p>\n<p>              Reading<\/p>\n<p>            and receive free news updates.\n          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency crews were dispatched to the intersection of Shartlesville Road and Bernville Road in Penn Township at 1:51&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-195860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","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\/195860","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=195860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}