{"id":33717,"date":"2018-03-22T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/fatal-accident-in-kent-at-west-meeker-and-washington-avenue\/"},"modified":"2018-03-23T16:11:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T23:11:40","slug":"fatal-accident-in-kent-at-west-meeker-and-washington-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/fatal-accident-in-kent-at-west-meeker-and-washington-avenue\/","title":{"rendered":"82-year-old Kent man who died in car accident identified | Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

An 82-year-old Kent man died from injuries suffered in a two-vehicle crash Thursday morning at the intersection of West Meeker Street and Washington Avenue North.<\/p>\n

Wah Lem died from multiple blunt force injuries, according to a media report Friday by the King County Medical Examiner’s Office. Initial Kent Police reports had Lem’s age at 83.<\/p>\n

Preliminary information suggests that one of the vehicles was traveling eastbound on West Meeker Street and collided with the other vehicle that had been westbound on Meeker Street, making a left turn to go south on Washington Avenue North, according to a Kent Police media release. There are indications that speed may have been a contributing factor to this collision.<\/p>\n

The vehicle collision occurred at about 11:23 a.m. at the intersection West Meeker Street and Washington Avenue North<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police officers and firefighters performed live-saving efforts but were unable to save the Kent man. Police have not released the identity of the man. Paramedics transported the other driver, a 70-year-old Federal Way woman, to a local hospital with unknown injuries. Both drivers were alone in their vehicles.<\/p>\n

Kent Police continued to investigate the accident Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crash near West Meeker Street and Washington Avenue <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":33718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-33717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33717"}],"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=33717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33717"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}