{"id":251450,"date":"2026-07-24T21:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251450\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T21:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:39:08","slug":"young-girl-airlifted-to-hospital-after-being-struck-by-pickup-truck-in-berks-county-police-say-western-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/251450\/","title":{"rendered":"Young girl airlifted to hospital after being struck by pickup truck in Berks County, police say | Western-berks-county"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TULPEHOCKEN TWP., Pa. &#8211; A young girl was hit by a heavy-duty pickup truck in Tulpehocken Township on Friday afternoon, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the incident occurred around 1:30 p.m. at the intersection of Wintersville and Temple Road.<\/p>\n<p>The young girl was playing nearby when she ran into the street and was struck by a heavy-duty truck carrying cattle, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the child has been airlifted to Hershey Medical. Her current condition is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the truck stayed on the scene following the incident and called Tulpehocken Township Police and EMS.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Stick with 69 News on the web and on air for the latest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TULPEHOCKEN TWP., Pa. &#8211; A young girl was hit by a heavy-duty pickup truck in Tulpehocken Township on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[107488,94206,107487,206,128,130,129,2410,1017,49815],"class_list":["post-251450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-airlifted","tag-child-injury","tag-heavy-duty-truck","tag-police","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-road-safety","tag-traffic-accident","tag-tulpehocken-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251450","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=251450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}