West Reading police are investigating a crash over the weekend that involved a Wyomissing police vehicle.<\/p>\n
The crash happened about 1:30 a.m. Sunday at South Fifth Avenue and Chestnut Street.<\/p>\n
Wyomissing Police Chief John Phillips said one of his officers was returning to the borough, traveling west on Chestnut, after assisting West Reading police in an incident.<\/p>\n
A preliminary report on the crash indicates the police vehicle was facing a green signal when it entered the intersection with Fifth and was broadsided by a car that ran a red light while traveling on Fifth toward Penn Avenue.<\/p>\n
The officer who was driving was taken to Reading Hospital for evaluation.<\/p>\n
Both vehicles were towed.<\/p>\n
He referred the newspaper to West Reading police for further information. A crash report from West Reading was unavailable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Reading police are investigating a crash over the weekend that involved a Wyomissing police vehicle. The crash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,182,139,28,128,130,129,706,707],"class_list":["post-69257","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-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg","tag-west-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69257","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=69257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}