{"id":205178,"date":"2026-05-29T07:17:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205178\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:17:25","slug":"schuylkill-man-was-passenger-who-died-after-crash-in-berks-coroner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205178\/","title":{"rendered":"Schuylkill man was passenger who died after crash in Berks, coroner says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Schuylkill County man was the passenger who died after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/05\/25\/passenger-dies-after-1-car-crash-in-berks-state-police-say\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one-car crash<\/a> on Route 183 in Bernville, Berks County Coroner Matthew J. Stitzel said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Stitzel said Keenan E. Cryts, 23, of Wayne Township died Sunday at 11:19 p.m. in Reading Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy by Dr. Neil Hoffman, a forensic pathologist, is scheduled for Wednesday in the hospital, Stitzel said.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers at Reading gave this account:<\/p>\n<p>Troopers responded just before 2 a.m. Sunday 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>Cryts suffered severe injuries and was transported to the hospital, where he later died.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Schuylkill County man was the passenger who died after a one-car crash on Route 183 in Bernville,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,182,139,28,128,130,129,231,706],"class_list":["post-205178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","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\/205178","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=205178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}