{"id":68041,"date":"2025-12-23T00:25:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/68041\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T00:25:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T00:25:38","slug":"crash-involving-police-vehicle-under-investigation-in-west-reading-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/68041\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash involving police vehicle under investigation in West Reading | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; A doorbell camera video is shedding some light on a wreck involving a Wyomissing Police vehicle and another car.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened early Sunday morning at the busy intersection of South 5th Avenue and Chestnut Street in West Reading.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was an accident this weekend involving a Wyomissing Police car. It&#8217;s not uncommon for police officers to be involved in accidents. Their job is very stressful,&#8221; said Berks County District Attorney John Adams.<\/p>\n<p>Adams says this isn&#8217;t the first time something like this has happened, and investigators are looking into the details.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The early investigation has revealed that, most likely, the car, the police car, had a green light, went through the green light, and, unfortunately, was involved in a mishap,&#8221; explained Adams.<\/p>\n<p>Adams says certain investigative and police protocols are involved with incidents like this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m rather certain the West Reading Police Department will be doing the accident reconstruction and accident investigation, and that&#8217;s the best way to do it, because we want an independent agency,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Adams says police officers are putting their lives at risk every day while doing their job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a tough job, and I give our police officers all the credit in the world,&#8221; Adams added. &#8220;They do get some advanced training being a patrol officer. We just hope and pray they and who they&#8217;re in an accident with, that they&#8217;re not hurt.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; A doorbell camera video is shedding some light on a wreck involving a Wyomissing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1055,36023,28,128,130,129,707,31957,36022],"class_list":["post-68041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-john-adams","tag-patrol-officer","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-west-reading","tag-west-reading-police-department","tag-wyomissing-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68041","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=68041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}