A 70-year-old Reading-area man was fatally injured in a motorcycle accident on Route 61 near Shoemakersville, authorities said Friday.<\/p>\n
Patrick M. Powers lost control of the cruiser-style motorcycle Thursday about 12:40 p.m. while traveling north in the right lane just north of Shoemakersville Road in Perry Township, state police at Hamburg said in a release issued Friday morning.<\/p>\n
The bike went off the right shoulder and traveled for about 100 feet up a slight embankment before returning to the roadway and flipping over.<\/p>\n
Medics from Northern Berks Ambulance began lifesaving treatment on Powers, who was wearing a helmet, before transporting him to Reading Hospital.<\/p>\n
Powers was pronounced dead by a staff physician.<\/p>\n
He was 22nd person to die this year as a result of crashes, including three on motorcycles, on Berks roads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 70-year-old Reading-area man was fatally injured in a motorcycle accident on Route 61 near Shoemakersville, authorities said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,7457,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-229010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-perry-township","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229010","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=229010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}