{"id":201968,"date":"2026-05-25T15:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201968\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T15:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T15:49:08","slug":"passenger-dies-after-1-car-crash-in-berks-state-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201968\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger dies after 1-car crash in Berks, state police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State police said a passenger has died following a one-car crash in Bernville on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers at Reading gave this account:<\/p>\n<p>Troopers responded just before 2 a.m. to a report of a crash with entrapment on Route 183, also known as Bernville Road, just north of North Fourth Street.<\/p>\n<p>The car, driven by a 23-year-old male from Pottsville, was southbound on Route 183, crossed into the northbound lane, then struck a tree.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger, Keenan Cryts, 23, suffered severe injuries and was transported to a nearby trauma center.<\/p>\n<p>Cryts died in Reading Hospital at 11:19 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was wearing a seat belt, but Cryts was not.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers said an investigation continues and they are being assisted by the Berks County district attorney\u2019s office and the coroner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State police said a passenger has died following a one-car crash in Bernville on Sunday. Troopers at Reading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,19070,202,182,139,28,128,130,129,231,706],"class_list":["post-201968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-bernville","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-schuylkill-county","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201968","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=201968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}