READING, Pa. – One person is dead and another is injured after a car accident in Reading on Thursday afternoon, the Reading Police Department said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police were dispatched to the 300 block of South 4th Street just after 12:30 p.m. for a report of a vehicle flipped over and possible occupant ejection, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Reading police and fire departments arrived to find a vehicle flipped over on its roof and a passenger partially ejected through the sunroof, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The passenger was declared dead on the scene by the Berks County Coroner, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The victim was a 27-year-old from Sinking Spring, according to the coroner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Additional identification information will be pending notification of next of kin, the coroner said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
An autopsy is schedule for Friday morning to assist in determining the cause and manner of death.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The driver’s injuries are non-life-threatening, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office was assisted at the scene by the Reading<\/p>\n
Police Department, Reading Fire Department, and Matos Towing.<\/p>\n
This is an ongoing investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – One person is dead and another is injured after a car accident in Reading on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-223286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223286","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=223286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}