died<\/a> three days later in Reading Hospital of head injuries, officials said.<\/p>\nAccording to the probable cause affidavit:<\/p>\n
Police responded at 2:12 a.m. to the 1800 block of Hampden Boulevard and found the SUV in the southbound lane with Martinez-Almanza lying injured on the passenger side. A woman later identified as of the passenger, Plancarte, was unresponsive beneath the vehicle.<\/p>\n
No one was in the house, which has been converted into an insurance business, but it left a large hole in the front wall.<\/p>\n
Reading Fire Department personnel reported at least one bottle of beer was visible in the wreckage.<\/p>\n
Both occupants were taken by ambulance to Reading Hospital.<\/p>\n
A state police crash reconstruction team was requested to respond to the scene.<\/p>\n
Reading police Criminal Investigator Drew Zebertavage rounded up security camera footage that showed Martinez-Almanza and Piancarte at two bars in the hours leading up to the crash.<\/p>\n
They entered the first bar, located in the Hyde Park section of Muhlenberg, shortly after midnight and were seen toasting and drinking a shot each about 12:30 a.m. They each consumed a beer before and after the shot.<\/p>\n
They entered the second bar, in north Reading, about 1:20 a.m., but there was no further footage.<\/p>\n
Investigators obtained a search warrant to have blood drawn from Martinez-Almanza for testing. It showed a blood-alcohol content of 0.136%, which 70% higher the legal limit of 0.08%.<\/p>\n
The crash reconstruction report indicated Martinez-Almanza was driving northbound at 133 mph in the 1700 block of Hampden Boulevard before the crash. After crossing the intersection with Bern Street, he lost control and the SUV crossed over the turning lane and southbound travel lane before leaving the road, shearing a fire hydrant and continuing into the building.<\/p>\n
Piancarte was thrown through the passenger side window and pinned beneath the SUV as it flipped onto its side.<\/p>\n
Investigators learned that Martinez-Almanza had a DUI offense in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Muhlenberg Township man was driving at more than 130 mph in a 35-mph zone after a night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-295680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295680","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=295680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}