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Crash Sends Pottstown Man to Hospital

Accident closed Boyertown Pike for 90 minutes.

A Pottstown man remains hospitalized after the vehicle in which he was a passenger crashed into a utility pole on Monday night, the Reading Eagle reported.

Walter Ohlinger, 45, was reportedly not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash, which closed Boyertown Pike in Exeter Township for about 90 minutes. Rescuers had to remove the vehicle's roof to extract Ohlinger and the driver.

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