{"id":22038,"date":"2015-09-16T10:35:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T17:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/two-men-die-in-single-vehicle-crash-in-kent-update\/"},"modified":"2015-09-16T10:35:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T17:35:18","slug":"two-men-die-in-single-vehicle-crash-in-kent-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/two-men-die-in-single-vehicle-crash-in-kent-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men die in single-vehicle crash in Kent | Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>A driver and his passenger were killed in a single-car accident Wednesday morning in Kent just south of the intersection of Southeast Kent Kangley Road and 124th Avenue Southeast.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kent Police have not released the names of the two men. The driver is a 25-year-old Federal Way man and the passenger a 25-year-old Auburn man.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>A passerby noticed a vehicle deep in the woods on the west side of 124th Avenue Southeast and called 911 at about 6:53 a.m., just at daylight, according to Kent Police spokeswoman Melanie Robinson. The exact time of the crash is unknown.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Officers found two men inside a heavily damaged vehicle. The Kent Fire Department also responded and declared the driver dead at the scene. The passenger sustained life-threatening injuries and paramedics transported him to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he later died.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>An initial investigation shows that alcohol and speed may have been a factor in the accident, according to a police media release. Police closed 124th Avenue Southeast between Kent Kangley Road and Southeast 270th Avenue to conduct an investigation of the accident.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A driver and his passenger were killed in a single-car accident Wednesday morning in Kent just south of the intersection of Southeast Kent Kangley Road and 124th Avenue Southeast.<\/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-22038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038"}],"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=22038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22038"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}