{"id":230349,"date":"2026-06-28T15:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/230349\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T15:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T15:17:08","slug":"exeter-man-dies-after-his-motorcycle-collides-with-van-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/230349\/","title":{"rendered":"Exeter man dies after his motorcycle collides with van | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXETER TWP., Pa. &#8211; The Berks County Coroner is investigating a fatal motorcycle crash that happened early Saturday in Exeter Township.<\/p>\n<p>The crash at the intersection of St. Lawrence Avenue and Shelbourne Road involving a motorcycle and minivan was reported at 12:11 a.m..<\/p>\n<p>The motorcycle operator, 49-year-old Larry Pergola Jr., of Exeter Township, was transported to Reading Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased at 12:56 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Berks County Coroner&#8217;s Office is being assisted by the Exeter Township Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing. The cause and manner of death are pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXETER TWP., Pa. &#8211; The Berks County Coroner is investigating a fatal motorcycle crash that happened early Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,2088,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-230349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-area","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\/230349","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=230349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}