{"id":229578,"date":"2026-06-27T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229578\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T11:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:15:10","slug":"man-dies-after-motorcycle-accident-on-route-61-in-berks-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229578\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after motorcycle accident on Route 61 in Berks | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKS CO., Pa. &#8211; A man died after his motorcycle went off the road and hit an embankment in Perry Township Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>It happened on Route 61 just south of Route 662 around 12:30.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say 70-year old Patrick Powers of Muhlenberg Township died at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear why his bike left the road.<\/p>\n<p>His death has been ruled an accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS CO., Pa. &#8211; A man died after his motorcycle went off the road and hit an embankment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-229578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","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\/229578","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=229578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}