{"id":231014,"date":"2026-06-29T16:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231014\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:22:11","slug":"56-year-old-pottstown-man-dead-after-crashing-into-tree-in-berks-county-coroner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231014\/","title":{"rendered":"56-year-old Pottstown man dead after crashing into tree in Berks County: coroner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 One person died after crashing into a tree early Saturday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid023x3tsucXPnxjPtJhtXAAyXEXpMA56dwoxEqjGAR2a4Rd2k29aFuZ1BDXkwkAmDQel&amp;id=100064442872675\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amity Township<\/a>, according to the police.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 6 a.m., patrol officers were called to the 1800 block of Old Swede Road after a car crash left one person trapped in their vehicle. At the scene, the police found the car had crashed into a tree. <\/p>\n<p>The driver, identified by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/berkscountycoroner\/posts\/pfbid0hMjEXXqCk3hKxrD53b9jggYnEXZTNmxz8EAGAouf3tPnzbEqDEEJ7siypN2hTyVMl?__cft__[0]=AZbYeANZc6TA7OzvwNkkwHuUfLQcZ-evhPH4pIhQ5jDy_Ek5p1-1Y3l8uX0fsJOZortEYVpWHa7z8fLsPR_xMITruN4ALhs4l30Bl1tmGYNVBUp44x_lU6VKh4SbS03DKVi3jd87H4Imk9SVAygsUL-3O-AUxI9j8SFkHHCTR-9s_0rMuj0ghUdiiGpdbvunYgw&amp;__tn__=%2CO*F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Berks County Coroner&#8217;s Office<\/a> as a 56-year-old man, was rescued from the car by rescue officials and rushed to Reading Hospital, where they ultimately died as a result of their injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner will release the identity of the deceased at a later time. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the crash is still under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 One person died after crashing into a tree early Saturday in Amity Township,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-231014","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\/231014","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=231014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}