{"id":235024,"date":"2026-07-03T22:22:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235024\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T22:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T22:22:36","slug":"berks-coroner-identifies-pottstown-man-killed-in-amity-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/235024\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks coroner identifies Pottstown man killed in Amity crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Sayed Gendy, 56, of Pottstown was the motorist fatally injured last weekend when his vehicle struck a tree along Route 662 in Amity Township, Berks County Coroner Matthew J. Stitzel said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Gendy lost control of the vehicle shortly after 6 a.m. on June 28 in the 1800 block of Old Swede Road, which is Route 662, police said. He was the sole occupant.<\/p>\n<p>He was freed from the wreckage by emergency responders and taken to Reading Hospital, where an emergency department physician <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/06\/28\/driver-killed-in-eastern-berks-crash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pronounced<\/a> him dead at 7:10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>He died of head and chest injuries, and the death was ruled accidental by the coroner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Gendy was the 25th fatality on Berks roads this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El Sayed Gendy, 56, of Pottstown was the motorist fatally injured last weekend when his vehicle struck a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7755,349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-235024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-amity-township","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235024","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=235024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}