{"id":15553,"date":"2009-03-16T12:46:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T19:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/three-dead-following-head-on-crash-sunday-on-sr-167\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T19:40:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T02:40:32","slug":"three-dead-following-head-on-crash-sunday-on-sr-167","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/three-dead-following-head-on-crash-sunday-on-sr-167\/","title":{"rendered":"Three dead following head-on crash Sunday on SR 167"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year-old Kent woman and two Renton residents were killed in a head-on, three-vehicle crash early Sunday on Highway 167 in Auburn.<\/p>\n<p>Brittany Meredith, 21, of Kent, was driving alone in a black 1998 Mazda Protege at about 1:35 a.m. Sunday when she entered the northbound lanes of the freeway at South 277th Street, reportedly in the wrong direction, according to a Washington State Patrol media release.<\/p>\n<p>Moments after entering the freeway via the northbound off-ramp, the Mazda crossed three lanes and struck head-on into a green 1999 Honda Accord in the HOV lane, just south of South 277th Street.<\/p>\n<p>Marina Martinez, 69, of Renton, the driver of the Honda, and her passenger, Cesar Martinez, 72, of Renton, were killed.<\/p>\n<p>A third vehicle collided with the Mazda shortly after the initial head-on crash. Nobody was injured in the third vehicle, a silver 1999 BMW 740.<\/p>\n<p>Meredith and Cesar Martinez were dead at the scene. Marina Martinez died later Sunday at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators, as of Monday, were trying to determine whether alcohol or drugs were a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The northbound lanes of Highway 167 were closed for about three hours while troopers investigated the accident.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 21-year-old Kent woman and two Renton residents were killed in a head-on, three-vehicle crash early Sunday on Highway 167 in Auburn. Brittany Meredith, 21, of Kent, was driving alone in a black 1998 Mazda Protege at about 1:35 a.m. Sunday when she entered the northbound lanes of the freeway at South 277th Street, reportedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15553"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}