An Exeter Township man was killed in a motorcycle accident at the intersection of Route 562 and Shelbourne Road in the township, Berks County Coroner Matthew J. Stitzel announced Saturday.<\/p>\n
A motorcycle driven by Larry Pergola Jr., 49, was struck by a minivan early Saturday morning. The coroner gave this account:<\/p>\n
The Berks County 911 Center received a report of the crash at 12:11 a.m. Saturday. Pergola was transported to Reading Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:56. The coroner\u2019s office was called to the hospital at 1:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing, and the cause and manner of death have yet to be officially determined. Further details were unavailable Sunday.<\/p>\n
Pergola is the 24th person to die on Berks County roads this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Exeter Township man was killed in a motorcycle accident at the intersection of Route 562 and Shelbourne…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[349,1411,182,139,28,30,29,706],"class_list":["post-230669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-berks-county","tag-exeter-township","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230669","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=230669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}