PERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The Berks County Coroner’s Office has identified a man who died in a motorcycle crash in Perry Township on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At approximately 12:39 p.m., Berks County dispatchers received a report of a motorcycle crash on Route 61 (South Pottsville Pike), just south of Route 662, in Perry Township, the coroner’s office said.<\/p>\n
According to the preliminary investigation, a solo motorcycle rider was traveling northbound on Route 61 when, for reasons that remain under investigation, the motorcycle left the roadway and struck an embankment, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The operator was transported by ambulance to Reading Hospital, where he was pronounced dead by hospital physicians at 3:02 p.m., the coroner said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Berks County Coroner’s Office was notified at 3:06 p.m. and responded to Reading Hospital to conduct the medicolegal investigation, according to the release.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The victim has been identified as Patrick Michael Powers, 70, of Muhlenberg Township, according to the coroner.<\/p>\n
Officials say the cause of death has been determined to be blunt force trauma, and the manner of death has been ruled accidental.<\/p>\n
The Berks County Coroner’s Office was assisted by the Pennsylvania State Police \u2013 Hamburg Station, Shoemakersville Fire Company, Northern Berks EMS, and Muhlenberg Area Ambulance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — The Berks County Coroner’s Office has identified a man who died in a motorcycle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-229904","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\/229904","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=229904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}