A 78-year-old Mohnton man has died after his bicycle was struck by an SUV Friday afternoon in Spring Township, according to the Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Berks County Coroner Matthew J. Stitzel said the Coroner\u2019s Office was notified of the death at 3:06 p.m. Friday, June 26, by the Emergency Department at Reading Hospital. A deputy coroner responded to the hospital to investigate.<\/p>\n
According to the investigation, John Barton Renninger, of the 0 block of East Summit Street in Mohnton Borough, was riding his bicycle eastbound on Revere Boulevard (Route 724) shortly before 2:30 p.m. when a westbound SUV attempted to make a left turn onto Cloister Court and struck him.<\/p>\n
The coroner said Renninger was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash but suffered fatal injuries.<\/p>\n
His cause of death will be certified as blunt force trauma, and the manner of death has been ruled accidental.<\/p>\n
The Spring Township Police Department assisted the Coroner\u2019s Office with the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 78-year-old Mohnton man has died after his bicycle was struck by an SUV Friday afternoon in Spring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-229720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","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\/229720","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=229720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}