{"id":205946,"date":"2026-05-30T03:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T03:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205946\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T03:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T03:23:10","slug":"earl-township-crash-police-vehicle-goes-into-wooded-area-near-route-73-and-manatawny-road-in-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205946\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Township crash: Police vehicle goes into wooded area near Route 73 and Manatawny Road in Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Briana Smith Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/13768431_wpvibiobrianasmith.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, May 30, 2026 2:50AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Police vehicle crashes into wooded area in Berks County\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">EARL TWP., Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; An investigation is underway after a police vehicle crashed into a wooded area in Berks County on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crash happened around 8 p.m. near Route 73 and Manatawny Road in Earl Township.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Chopper 6 was overhead after emergency crews flooded the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">There was no immediate word on the officer&#8217;s condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities are working to determine what caused the vehicle to leave the roadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The road is closed in the area until further notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Stay with Action News as we continue to follow this developing story.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, May 30, 2026 2:50AM EARL TWP., Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; An investigation is underway after a police vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[90605,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-205946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-90605","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\/205946","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=205946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}