{"id":24398,"date":"2025-11-04T15:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/24398\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T15:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T15:27:09","slug":"pedestrian-dead-after-accident-on-route-222-in-berks-northern-berks-county-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/24398\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dead after accident on Route 222 in Berks | Northern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ONTELAUNEE TWP., Pa. &#8211; A pedestrian is dead after an accident that closed a\u00a0stretch of Route 222 in Berks County\u00a0Tuesday morning, according to the\u00a0Northern Berks Regional Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Route 222 northbound was closed at the Park Road exit. The highway has since reopened, according to the county\u2019s Department of Emergency Services.<\/p>\n<p>County dispatchers said the county coroner was called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link-content\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/station\/apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Download the FREE 69News Traffic App<\/a><\/p>\n<p>No word yet on what led up to the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Berks Regional Police Department said it will release more information later Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Stick with 69 News and <a href=\"http:\/\/wfmz.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wfmz.com<\/a> for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ONTELAUNEE TWP., Pa. &#8211; A pedestrian is dead after an accident that closed a\u00a0stretch of Route 222 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[349,153,155,154,347,6654,16035,16036],"class_list":{"0":"post-24398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-crash","13":"tag-road-closure","14":"tag-route-222","15":"tag-traffic-diversion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24398","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=24398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}