{"id":196960,"date":"2026-05-19T18:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/196960\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T18:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:55:09","slug":"berks-coroner-ids-man-fatally-injured-in-motorcycle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/196960\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks coroner ID&#8217;s man fatally injured in motorcycle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 38-year-old Reading man was the motorcyclist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/05\/18\/man-killed-in-motorcycle-crash-on-route-183-in-northern-berks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatally injured Sunday<\/a> in a two-vehicle crash on Route 183 in Penn Township, Berks County Coroner Matthew J. Stitzel said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas DePietro was pronounced dead Sunday at 2:42 p.m. in Reading Hospital by emergency department staff. He died of multiple injuries and the crash was ruled accidental, the coroner said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at Route 183 and Shartlesville Road shortly before 2 p.m. Reports indicate the motorcycle collided with another vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Route 183, also known as Bernville Road, was closed between Summer Mountain Road in Penn Township and Washington Street in Bernville while state police investigated.<\/p>\n<p>State police haven\u2019t released information on the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 38-year-old Reading man was the motorcyclist fatally injured Sunday in a two-vehicle crash on Route 183 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,29951,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-196960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-penn-township","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\/196960","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=196960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}