BERKS CO., Pa. – A 23-year-old Pottsville man is suspected of driving under the influence when his Tesla struck a tree early Sunday, severely injuring his passenger.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania State Police say the accident happened on southbound Route 183 just north of N. 4th Street, at approximately 1:56 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n
The black Tesla sedan was traveling south, but traversed into the northbound lane and struck a tree.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old male passenger in the vehicle suffered severe injuries as a result of the crash, and was taken to a nearby trauma center. He is currently receiving treatment for his injuries.<\/p>\n
Police say it is believed that the driver was wearing his seat belt, but the passenger was not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS CO., Pa. – A 23-year-old Pottsville man is suspected of driving under the influence when his Tesla…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,13886,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-201442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-northern-berks-county","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\/201442","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=201442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}