Robeson TWP., Pa. – A 44-year-old man from Coatesville has been charged with homicide by vehicle following a crash that killed two men and seriously injured one other, state police say.<\/p>\n
The crash occurred near the Green Hills exit on I-176 South in Robeson Township at approximately 6 a.m., according to authorities.<\/p>\n
Police say the crash occurred as three drivers were traveling in the southbound lanes of I-176.<\/p>\n
44-year-old Paul Villanueva attempted to change lanes between two cars when the back of his vehicle hit the front of another car, authorities say.<\/p>\n
Police say this collision caused the car that was hit to leave the roadway and hit an embankment before becoming airborne between the southbound and northbound bridges.<\/p>\n
The airborne vehicle struck the northbound lane before landing upside down in a nearby creek between the two bridges, authorities say.<\/p>\n
According to police, the 18 and 20-year-old passengers of the vehicle were pronounced dead on the scene. The 21-year-old driver is seriously injured and has been transported to Reading Hospital.<\/p>\n
Villanueva additionally hit the rear bumper of another vehicle, which stopped on the right shoulder of 176 S, authorities say.<\/p>\n
Police say the 64-year-old driver reported no injuries.<\/p>\n
All vehicles have been towed from the scene, and the road has been reopened as of 11:30 a.m. Friday.<\/p>\n
According to authorities, Villanueva was taken into custody following the crash and has been charged with homicide by motor vehicle and related offenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robeson TWP., Pa. – A 44-year-old man from Coatesville has been charged with homicide by vehicle following a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[14018,1540,5993,26030,107355,128,130,129,107356,6654,12748],"class_list":["post-253075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county-coroner","tag-car-crash","tag-critical-condition","tag-emergency-response","tag-i-176","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-rescue-teams","tag-road-closure","tag-robeson-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253075","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=253075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}