{"id":257926,"date":"2026-08-02T22:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257926\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T22:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T22:08:08","slug":"18-year-old-found-dead-inside-car-submerged-in-pennsylvania-quarry-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/257926\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old found dead inside car submerged in Pennsylvania quarry, official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old man was found dead inside a car submerged in a quarry in Spring Township, Pennsylvania, Sunday, the Berks County Coroner&#8217;s Office said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At around 6:45 a.m. Sunday, the Berks County 911 center received a call about a water emergency on the 1000 block of Yeager Boulevard at the former E.J. Breneman Quarry in Spring Township, the coroner&#8217;s office said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials responded to the scene and found a vehicle submerged in the quarry. The 18-year-old inside the vehicle was pronounced dead at 11:38 a.m., the coroner&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy for the 18-year-old is scheduled for Monday at Reading Hospital. The coroner&#8217;s office is withholding his identity until his family is notified.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old&#8217;s death is under investigation by the Berks County Coroner&#8217;s Office and the Spring Township Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old man was found dead inside a car submerged in a quarry in Spring Township, Pennsylvania, Sunday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[349,28,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-257926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-berks-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257926","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=257926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}