{"id":209815,"date":"2026-06-03T19:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/209815\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T19:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:53:09","slug":"cause-of-berks-police-officers-death-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/209815\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause of Berks police officer&#8217;s death revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Central Berks Regional police Officer Kristen M. Yeager died of blunt force injuries after her cruiser crashed into a tree May 29 in Earl Township, Berks County Coroner Matthew J. Stitzel announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Forensic pathologist Dr. Neil Hoffman performed an autopsy on Yeager to determine the cause of death, Stitzel said.<\/p>\n<p>The manner of death remains under investigation. as state police and the coroner\u2019s office continue looking into the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>State police said Yeager was eastbound on Route 73 at 7:50 p.m. Friday, responding to a call with the cruiser\u2019s emergency lights and sirens activated. They said her vehicle left the paved portion of the road, went onto the grass shoulder and hit a tree near the intersection with Manatawny Road. She was thrown from the cruiser.<\/p>\n<p>Stitzel said Yeager was pronounced dead at 8:42 p.m. Friday in Reading Hospital.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Central Berks Regional Police officer Kristen Yeager, 42, of Boyertown, was killed in a crash Friday, May 29, 2026, while responding to a call in Earl Township, authorities said. (Central Berks Regional Police Department)\" width=\"1400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/TMC-L-OfficerKilled-0530-01-1.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"21441484\" \/>Central Berks Regional Police officer Kristen Yeager, 42, of Boyertown, was killed in a crash Friday, May 29, 2026, while responding to a call in Earl Township, authorities said. (Central Berks Regional Police Department)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Central Berks Regional police Officer Kristen M. Yeager died of blunt force injuries after her cruiser crashed into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-209815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","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\/209815","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=209815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}