{"id":266615,"date":"2026-08-17T00:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266615\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:30:09","slug":"2-dead-1-injured-in-lancaster-county-crash-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/266615\/","title":{"rendered":"2 dead, 1 injured in Lancaster County crash, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 dead, 1 injured in Lancaster County crash, police say<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews called to North Reading Road and Keeler Avenue in East Cocalico Township<\/p>\n<p>EAST COCALICO TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Emergency crews were called to the scene of a deadly two-vehicle crash in Lancaster County around 8:45 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Video above: Headlines from WGAL News 8.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The crash was in the area of North Reading Road and Keeler Avenue in East Cocalico Township.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">A sedan and a &#8220;small compact&#8221; vehicle were involved in the crash, according to the East Cocalico Township Police Department. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Two people were found dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Police say a third person was injured and transported to a local hospital. The severity of their injuries is unknown. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">North Reading Road was closed in the area for about four hours.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">The roadways reopened just after 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">An investigation into the crash is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 dead, 1 injured in Lancaster County crash, police say Emergency crews called to North Reading Road and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2088,39313,112478,235,347,13333,28165,99190,11579,8197,112479,112481,2002,112480,13269,99191,736,128,130,129,6014,2581,17684,420,2812],"class_list":["post-266615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-area","tag-avenue","tag-cocalico","tag-county","tag-crash","tag-dispatch","tag-east","tag-east-cocalico-township","tag-emergency-crew","tag-headline","tag-keeler","tag-keeler-avenue","tag-lancaster","tag-lancaster-county-crash","tag-north","tag-north-reading-road","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-road","tag-scene","tag-township","tag-video","tag-wgal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266615","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=266615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}