A 56-year-old Pottstown man was killed in a crash in Amity Township, Berks County Coroner Matthew J. Stitzel announced Sunday.<\/p>\n
The victim, whose identity has been withheld pending notification of next of kin, was the sole occupant of a vehicle that struck a tree in the 1800 block of Old Swede Road at 6:08 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n
Stitzel said the driver was extricated from the vehicle by emergency responders and transported to Reading Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A deputy coroner was called to the hospital to investigate.<\/p>\n
The cause of death is blunt force injuries. The manner has yet to be determined as the coroner\u2019s office and Amity police continue their investigation.<\/p>\n
This was the 25th fatality on Berks County roads this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 56-year-old Pottstown man was killed in a crash in Amity Township, Berks County Coroner Matthew J. Stitzel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-230311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","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\/230311","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=230311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}