ROBESONIA, Pa. – Authorities have released the identity of the woman struck and killed while trying to cross a busy road in western Berks County Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
65-year-old Sherry Yoh of North Heidelberg Township sustained critical injuries after being struck by a vehicle on W. Penn Avenue near S. Brooke Street in Robesonia Borough around 6:30 p.m. yesterday.<\/p>\n
South Heidelberg Police Department (SHPD) responded and determined Yoh had parked her vehicle on the north side of Penn Avenue to meet family waiting on the south side.<\/p>\n
Witnesses told investigators Yoh began crossing Penn Avenue from north to south and was struck by an eastbound vehicle.<\/p>\n
Police say several drivers stopped to render aid to the victim, but Yoh was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
The driver of the striking vehicle remained on scene and is fully cooperating with the ongoing police investigation.<\/p>\n
SHPD is asking anyone who witnessed the accident to contact the department by emailing rvalerio@sheidpd.org<\/a> or acruz@sheidpd.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROBESONIA, Pa. – Authorities have released the identity of the woman struck and killed while trying to cross…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,28,128,130,129,43942,43941,43943],"class_list":["post-88440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-robesonia","tag-sherry-yoh","tag-south-heidelberg-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88440","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=88440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}