{"id":201989,"date":"2026-05-25T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201989\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:26:11","slug":"pottsville-man-suspected-of-driving-under-the-influence-during-fatal-berks-county-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201989\/","title":{"rendered":"Pottsville man suspected of driving under the influence during fatal Berks County crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old man from Pottsville is suspected of driving under the influence during a crash that killed his 23-year-old passenger.<\/p>\n<p>BERKS COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 State police believe a man from Schuylkill County was under the influence at the time of a deadly crash in Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers say the 23-year-old driver from Pottsville, whose name has not been released, crossed into oncoming traffic before hitting a tree early Sunday morning in Bernville.<\/p>\n<p>His passenger, Keenan Cryts, 23, was taken to the hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p>The deadly wreck remains under investigation in Berks County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 23-year-old man from Pottsville is suspected of driving under the influence during a crash that killed his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-201989","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\/201989","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=201989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}