{"id":202681,"date":"2026-05-26T17:53:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202681\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:53:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T17:53:38","slug":"passenger-dies-from-injuries-after-sedan-hits-tree-driver-suspected-of-dui-state-police-say-northern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/202681\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger dies from injuries after sedan hits tree; driver suspected of DUI, state police say | Northern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERNVILLE, Pa. &#8211; The passenger of a sedan that hit a tree in Berks County over the weekend has died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Keenan Cryts, 23,\u00a0died at Reading Hospital on Sunday around 11:20 p.m., Pennsylvania State Police said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>State police say the accident happened on southbound Route 183, north of North Fourth Street, just before 2 a.m. Sunday.\u00a0The black Tesla sedan was traveling south but went into the northbound lane and hit the tree, according to state police.<\/p>\n<p>State police say they suspect the 23-year-old driver, who is from Pottsville, Schuylkill County, was under the influence, but they say the investigation is still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Cryts suffered severe injuries as a result of the crash and was taken to a nearby trauma center before he died.<\/p>\n<p>Police say it is believed that the driver was wearing his seat belt but Cryts was not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERNVILLE, Pa. &#8211; The passenger of a sedan that hit a tree in Berks County over the weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,13886,128,130,129,231],"class_list":["post-202681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-northern-berks-county","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-schuylkill-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202681","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=202681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}