{"id":21904,"date":"2015-12-15T10:59:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T18:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/renton-man-dies-in-i-5-single-car-accident-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2015-12-15T10:59:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T18:59:16","slug":"renton-man-dies-in-i-5-single-car-accident-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/renton-man-dies-in-i-5-single-car-accident-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Renton man dies in I-5 single-car accident in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>A 31-year-old Renton man died in a single-car crash at about 11 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 11 along southbound <a title=\"map\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/I-5,+Kent,+WA+98032\/@47.3927823,-122.293089,701m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x809dfe8eaf555c75:0x9b57206e6d01daee\" target=\"_self\">Interstate 5 in Kent near the State Route 516<\/a> interchange at mile post 149.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Robert Gilreath died from blunt injuries to the head and body, according to the King County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Gilreath was alone in a 2004 Honda Civic traveling southbound on I-5 when the car left the roadway, rolled and came to rest in the right side ditch, according to a State Patrol accident report. Gilreath was not wearing a seatbelt and was ejected from the vehicle. He was dead at the accident scene.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Gilreath&#8217;s survivors include two boys, ages 6 and 3, according to an email from the mother of the boys. She said Gilreath had not been involved in the boys&#8217; lives for about three years because of relationship issues, but that he loved the boys very much. Gilreath&#8217;s parents live in Samoa as do other members of his immediate family.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>It is unknown if drugs or alcohol were involved, according to the State Patrol. The cause of the accident is under investigation. The vehicle was totaled.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The accident blocked one lane for more than two hours.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 31-year-old Renton man died in a single-car crash at about 11 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 11 along southbound Interstate 5 in Kent near the State Route 516 interchange at mile post 149.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"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-21904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21904"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21904"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}