UPPER PERKIOMEN PEOPLE

Upper Perkiomen man killed in Colebrookdale motorcycle accident

The accident occurred on Friday.

By Tony Di Domizio

Managing Editor

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Police news.

Police news.

The accident occurred on Friday.

  • Public Safety

A 24-year-old man from Upper Perkiomen Township was killed in a motorcycle accident on Route 73 in Colebrookdale Township, Berks County. 

According to Colebrookdale Township Police, Joseph Turi, of Colonial Drive, East Greenville, was pronounced dead at Reading Hospital after the Friday morning crash.

Turi, police said, was on the motorcycle and collided with a tractor trailer at the intersection of South Funk Road and Route 73/West Philadelphia Avenue.

Berks County Coroner reported Turi died from multiple blunt force trauma.

Colebrookdale Township surrounds Boyertown Borough.

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Tony Di Domizio

Tony Di Domizio is the Managing Editor of NorthPennNow, PerkValleyNow, and CentralBucksNow, and a staff writer for WissNow. Email him at tony@northpennnow.com. Tony graduated from Kutztown University, under the tutelage of Dr. Matthew Nesvisky and Dr. Heather Thomas, and went on to serve as a reporter and editor for various news organizations, including Lansdale Patch/AOL, The Reporter in Lansdale, Pa., and the weekly Chronicle news editions of The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. A fourth-generation Lansdalian, he was born and raised in and around the Borough, including Little Italy, and attended North Penn High School, graduating in 1998. He once interviewed Jesse Spano in the back of a limousine outside North Penn High School.

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