{"id":237271,"date":"2026-07-07T05:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/237271\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T05:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T05:39:09","slug":"penn-street-bridge-crash-closes-route-422-ramp-for-hours-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/237271\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn Street Bridge crash closes Route 422 ramp for hours | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; Police were investigating after a serious crash on the Penn Street Bridge Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>It happened around 7:30 p.m. on the West Reading side.<\/p>\n<p>West Reading Police said two vehicles were involved, and a reconstruction team was called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Video from the scene shows two vehicles heavily damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The Route 422 eastbound ramp to Penn Avenue and Route 422 Business going east were closed for hours.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no word on what caused the crash or if anyone was injured.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Penn Street Bridge crash closes Route 422 ramp for hours - cleanup\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a4c79e6d00b1.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cleanup after a two-vehicle crash on the West Reading side of the Penn Street Bridge on July 6, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                                    WFMZ-TV | Jimmy Raxasena<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; Police were investigating after a serious crash on the Penn Street Bridge Monday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[102202,347,1021,102203,96954,206,736,128,130,129,6654,29106,707],"class_list":["post-237271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-422-eastbound-ramp","tag-crash","tag-investigation","tag-penn-ave","tag-penn-street-bridge","tag-police","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-road-closure","tag-vehicle-damage","tag-west-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237271","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=237271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}