{"id":204902,"date":"2026-05-28T22:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204902\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T22:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:43:08","slug":"nine-car-pileup-caused-by-fallen-carpet-on-route-12-in-berks-county-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204902\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine-car pileup caused by fallen carpet on Route 12 in Berks County | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUHLENBERG TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8212; Nine cars were involved in a crash on Route 12 in Berks County on Thursday afternoon, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Muhlenberg Township police tell 69 News that they were dispatched around 3:49 p.m. to Route 12 near the 5th Street exit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A carpet fell off a truck and caused a nine-car, chain reaction crash, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials do not know what truck dropped the carpet or how it fell off.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported from the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash temporarily closed part of Route 12, but the road was cleared just after 5:00 p.m..\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MUHLENBERG TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8212; Nine cars were involved in a crash on Route 12 in Berks County on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129,1704],"class_list":["post-204902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204902","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=204902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}