{"id":39961,"date":"2025-11-20T20:45:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/39961\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:45:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:45:22","slug":"car-shears-pole-in-central-berks-coroner-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/39961\/","title":{"rendered":"Car shears pole in central Berks, coroner called"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Berks County coroner\u2019s office was called to an accident in Leesport Thursday afternoon, according to emergency reports.<\/p>\n<p>The accident was reported about 2 p.m. at Peach Street and South Centre Avenue. One man was trapped and unresponsive in a vehicle that had crashed into a pole.<\/p>\n<p>Police called to the scene said the man\u2019s foot was stuck on the gas pedal, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The doors of the vehicle were locked and additional personnel were called in to open them.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner\u2019s office was called to the scene a few minutes after the initial call.<\/p>\n<p>Further information was unavailable Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Berks County coroner\u2019s office was called to an accident in Leesport Thursday afternoon, according to emergency reports.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,16424,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-39961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-leesport","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-reading-city","14":"tag-reading-city-headlines","15":"tag-reading-city-news","16":"tag-top-stories-reg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39961","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=39961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}