diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 517bcedc..c994f8bf 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Fixed
+ * Fix a bug where the reader was double counting the CRLF newline seq in metadata (#1063)
+
 ## [v0.2.3]
 ### Added
  * Added a compiler metadata flag for suppressing warnings when Var indirection is unavoidable (#1052)
diff --git a/src/basilisp/lang/reader.py b/src/basilisp/lang/reader.py
index 2c7c1418..2aba5143 100644
--- a/src/basilisp/lang/reader.py
+++ b/src/basilisp/lang/reader.py
@@ -277,7 +277,9 @@ def loc(self) -> Tuple[int, int]:
     def _update_loc(self):
         """Update the internal line and column buffers after a new character is
         added."""
-        if newline_chars.match(self._buffer[-2]):
+        if self._buffer[-2] == "\n" or (
+            self._buffer[-2] == "\r" and self._buffer[-1] != "\n"
+        ):
             self._col.append(0)
             self._line.append(self._line[-1] + 1)
         else:
diff --git a/tests/basilisp/reader_test.py b/tests/basilisp/reader_test.py
index d0510e0e..e561b5e9 100644
--- a/tests/basilisp/reader_test.py
+++ b/tests/basilisp/reader_test.py
@@ -198,6 +198,35 @@ def test_reader_lines_from_str_other_loc(self, tmp_path):
             l3.meta.get(reader.READER_END_COL_KW),
         )
 
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "evalstr,first,second",
+        [
+            ("[5]\n(def n 123)", (1, 1, 0, 3), (2, 2, 0, 11)),
+            ("[5]\r(def n 123)", (1, 1, 0, 3), (2, 2, 0, 11)),
+            ("[5]\r\n(def n 123)", (1, 1, 0, 3), (2, 2, 0, 11)),
+            ("[5]\n\n(def n 123)", (1, 1, 0, 3), (3, 3, 0, 11)),
+            ("[5]\r\r(def n 123)", (1, 1, 0, 3), (3, 3, 0, 11)),
+            ("[5]\r\n\r\n(def n 123)", (1, 1, 0, 3), (3, 3, 0, 11)),
+            ("\n[5]\n(def n 123)", (2, 2, 0, 3), (3, 3, 0, 11)),
+            ("\r[5]\r(def n 123)", (2, 2, 0, 3), (3, 3, 0, 11)),
+            ("\r\n[5]\r\n(def n 123)", (2, 2, 0, 3), (3, 3, 0, 11)),
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_reader_newlines_from_str(self, evalstr, first, second):
+        l0, l1 = list(reader.read_str(evalstr))
+        assert first == (
+            l0.meta.get(reader.READER_LINE_KW),
+            l0.meta.get(reader.READER_END_LINE_KW),
+            l0.meta.get(reader.READER_COL_KW),
+            l0.meta.get(reader.READER_END_COL_KW),
+        )
+        assert second == (
+            l1.meta.get(reader.READER_LINE_KW),
+            l1.meta.get(reader.READER_END_LINE_KW),
+            l1.meta.get(reader.READER_COL_KW),
+            l1.meta.get(reader.READER_END_COL_KW),
+        )
+
     def test_reader_lines_from_file(self, tmp_path):
         filename = tmp_path / "test.lpy"