{"id":231256,"date":"2026-06-29T21:48:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231256\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T21:48:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:48:02","slug":"motorcyclist-killed-in-after-colliding-with-minivan-in-berks-county-coroner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231256\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist killed in after colliding with minivan in Berks County: coroner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 A 49-year-old man is dead after a crash early Saturday near an Exeter Township intersection, according to the coroner&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Berks County Coroner Matthew Stitzel reported that shortly after 12:11 a.m., Larry Pergola Jr. was rushed to Reading Hospital after colliding with a minivan near the St. Lawrence Avenue and Shelbroune Road intersection.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner&#8217;s office was notified by physicians in the emergency department that Pergola had died as a result of his injuries. <\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing, and the cause of death is still under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERKS COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 A 49-year-old man is dead after a crash early Saturday near an Exeter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-231256","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\/231256","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=231256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}