{"id":208521,"date":"2026-06-02T16:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208521\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:24:12","slug":"oley-township-vehicle-fire-death-ruled-suicide-coroner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208521\/","title":{"rendered":"Oley Township vehicle fire death ruled suicide, coroner says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 69-year-old Oley Township resident whose <a href=\"https:\/\/berksweekly.com\/news\/body-discovered-after-vehicle-fire-in-oley-township-investigation-underway\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">body was discovered inside a burned van last week<\/a> died by suicide, according to an updated report released Tuesday by the Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The update provides additional details following a vehicle fire reported on May 26 in the 4000 block of Friedensburg Road in Oley Township.<\/p>\n<p>According to Berks County Coroner Matthew Stitzel, emergency crews were dispatched at approximately 9:43 a.m. for a vehicle fire. After firefighters extinguished the blaze, a body was found in the rear of the burned van.<\/p>\n<p>The Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office was notified at 10:21 a.m., with personnel arriving on scene at approximately 10:58 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Following an autopsy, the victim was identified as a 69-year-old Oley Township resident. The coroner determined the cause of death to be thermal burns and smoke inhalation. The manner of death was ruled suicide.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation involved the Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office, the Central Berks Regional Police Department, the Pennsylvania State Police Fire Marshal, and the Oley Fire Company.<\/p>\n<p>No additional information was released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 69-year-old Oley Township resident whose body was discovered inside a burned van last week died by suicide,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-208521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","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\/208521","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=208521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}