{"id":206234,"date":"2026-05-30T11:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206234\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T11:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T11:33:08","slug":"central-berks-police-officer-kristen-yeager-killed-in-crash-in-earl-township-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206234\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Berks police officer Kristen Yeager killed in crash in Earl Township, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Berks County, Pennsylvania, police officer was killed in a single-vehicle crash Friday night, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Officer Kristen Yeager of the Central Berks Regional Police Department was en route to a call in her patrol vehicle when she crashed near Manatawny Road near Shoemaker Road.<\/p>\n<p>Yeager was rushed to a nearby hospital and later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/earl-township-crash-officer-kristen-yeager.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"earl-township-crash-officer-kristen-yeager.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Central Berks Regional Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Central Berks police said Yeager &#8220;served our community with courage, compassion and unwavering dedication. She answered the call to protect and serve each day, placing the safety of others above her own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her commitment to her badge, her fellow officers, and the citizens she served will never be forgotten,&#8221; the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Berks County, Pennsylvania, police officer was killed in a single-vehicle crash Friday night, according to police. Officer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[349,1540,28,30,29,1385],"class_list":["post-206234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-berks-county","tag-car-crash","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-police-officers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206234","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=206234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}