{"id":229037,"date":"2026-06-26T19:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229037\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:06:31","slug":"coroner-ids-convertible-driver-killed-in-pa-crash-with-tractor-trailer-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229037\/","title":{"rendered":"Coroner IDs convertible driver killed in Pa. crash with tractor-trailer, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWEEK IN THE TEN DAY FORECAST IN A FEW MINUTES. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. NEW TONIGHT. ONE PERSON WAS KILLED IN A CRASH THAT SHUT DOWN A ROAD EARLIER TONIGHT IN LANCASTER COUNTY. ACCORDING TO DISPATCHERS, THE CRASH HAPPENED AROUND 445 THIS AFTERNOON. IT INVOLVED A VEHICLE AND A TRACTOR TRAILER ON NORTH READING RO\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Lancaster County coroner IDs convertible driver killed in crash with tractor-trailer, police say<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 2:34 PM EDT Jun 26, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA Berks County man is dead after a convertible and a tractor-trailer collided in Lancaster County on Thursday, according to the East Cocalico Township Police Department. Emergency crews responded to the two-vehicle wreck in the 2300 block of North Reading Road\/Route 272 at 4:43 p.m. According to police, the driver and sole occupant of the two-door convertible was pronounced dead at the scene. The coroner identified the victim as Michael Paul, 54, of Shillington. It’s unclear if the tractor-trailer driver was injured. North Reading Road was shut down for an extended time while the Lancaster County Crash Team conducted an investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact Sergeant Zachary Weaver at 717-336-1725. Stay with WGAL for updates as we learn more.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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A Berks County man is dead after a convertible and a tractor-trailer collided in Lancaster County on Thursday, according to the East Cocalico Township Police Department. <\/p>\n

Emergency crews responded to the two-vehicle wreck in the 2300 block of North Reading Road\/Route 272 at 4:43 p.m. <\/p>\n

According to police, the driver and sole occupant of the two-door convertible was pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n

The coroner identified the victim as Michael Paul, 54, of Shillington. <\/p>\n

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It’s unclear if the tractor-trailer driver was injured. <\/p>\n

North Reading Road was shut down for an extended time while the Lancaster County Crash Team conducted an investigation. <\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to contact Sergeant Zachary Weaver at 717-336-1725. <\/p>\n

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Stay with WGAL for updates as we learn more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEEK IN THE TEN DAY FORECAST IN A FEW MINUTES. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. NEW TONIGHT. ONE PERSON…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2586,99195,1245,99190,11579,8197,3685,99197,99192,5976,139,99191,4800,99194,206,128,130,129,6654,6765,5607,99196,3522,14111,27362,6967,890,22289,99193],"class_list":["post-229037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-block","tag-coroner-id-convertible-driver","tag-driver","tag-east-cocalico-township","tag-emergency-crew","tag-headline","tag-lancaster-county","tag-michael-paul","tag-muddy-creek-church-road","tag-multi-vehicle-crash","tag-news","tag-north-reading-road","tag-p-m","tag-pa-crash","tag-police","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-road-closure","tag-roadway","tag-route","tag-sole-occupant","tag-thursday","tag-thursday-evening","tag-tractor-trailer","tag-vehicle","tag-victim","tag-video-player","tag-west-swartzville-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229037","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=229037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}