{"id":210310,"date":"2026-06-04T06:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210310\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:44:07","slug":"death-of-man-found-inside-burning-car-ruled-accidental-berks-coroner-says-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/210310\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of man found inside burning car ruled accidental, Berks coroner says | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 The death of a man found inside a burning car in Cumru Township was accidental, the Berks County coroner says.<\/p>\n<p>On March 29, the body of 44-year-old Elvin Francisco De La Cruz Martinez of Reading was discovered after firefighters extinguished a car fire on South Ninth Street, near the city line.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation, which included an autopsy by a forensic pathologist, showed that thermal burns and smoke inhalation were the cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 The death of a man found inside a burning car in Cumru Township was accidental,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[41305,19415,349,92211,17147,6512,128,130,129,92212],"class_list":["post-210310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-accidental-death","tag-autopsy","tag-berks-county","tag-burning-car","tag-coroner","tag-cumru-township","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-thermal-burns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210310","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=210310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}