{"id":259184,"date":"2026-08-04T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259184\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:12:09","slug":"sedan-driver-hospitalized-after-crash-involving-two-tractor-trailers-in-bern-township-northern-berks-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259184\/","title":{"rendered":"Sedan driver hospitalized after crash involving two tractor trailers in Bern Township | Northern Berks County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERN TWP., Pa. &#8211; A sedan driver was hospitalized after a chain-reaction crash involving two tractor trailers on Monday afternoon in Bern Township, according to Bern Township Police.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the crash happened around 3:15 p.m. on Monday, when a sedan traveling southbound tried to pass a tractor trailer and struck it. The impact pushed the sedan into the northbound lane, where it ended up underneath the wheels of a second tractor trailer.<\/p>\n<p>The sedan driver was taken to Reading Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to authorities. Both tractor trailer drivers were uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>The road reopened by 5 p.m. The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERN TWP., Pa. &#8211; A sedan driver was hospitalized after a chain-reaction crash involving two tractor trailers on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2567,8137,3837,128,130,129,2791,110012,33012,27362,1017],"class_list":["post-259184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-bern-township","tag-crash-investigation","tag-injury","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-hospital","tag-rt-183","tag-sedan","tag-tractor-trailer","tag-traffic-accident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259184","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=259184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}