{"id":36095,"date":"2018-08-03T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/wrong-way-driver-dies-in-collision-on-sr-516-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2018-08-03T16:41:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T23:41:18","slug":"wrong-way-driver-dies-in-collision-on-sr-516-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/wrong-way-driver-dies-in-collision-on-sr-516-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong-way driver dies in collision on SR 516 in Kent | Update: Woman identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A wrong-way driver died after causing a four-vehicle collision on <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/dur7Fab6Lp72\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\">State Route 516 (Kent Des Moines Road) near West Meeker Street <\/a>in Kent early Friday morning, Washington State Patrol reported.<\/p>\n<p>Layla Bader, 25, of Yelm, died at the scene of the crash from multiple blunt force injury, according to the King County Medical Examiner&rsquo;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>According to State Patrol, the victim, driving a 2014 Chevrolet Impala, was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes when she struck a 2008 Chevrolet C4500 pickup truck driven by a 54-year-old Lake Tapps man. As the truck hit the center median, the victim lost control of her car, spinning and then hitting a second vehicle, a 2013 Toyota Highlander driven by a 27-year-old Tacoma woman. Debris from the wreck damaged a fourth vehicle, a 2018 Hyundai Kona driven by a 20-year-old Puyallup man.<\/p>\n<p>The three drivers involved in the crash were not seriously hurt, State Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p>The wreck, which occurred around 2:49 a.m. near West Meeker Street, closed the roadway between Military Road South and West Valley Highway for more than five hours.<\/p>\n<p>State Patrol said drugs or alcohol may have been involved. The victim was not wearing a seat belt, State Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deadly intersection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It marks the second death in two weeks on SR 516 near West Meeker Street. Kent Police Office Diego Moreno was killed on July 22 when struck by a fellow officer during a pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>Four people have died in the last four months along that stretch of highway.<\/p>\n<p>In April, two Federal Way men were killed when their car headed the wrong way at about 11:35 p.m. on SR 516 just east of West Meeker Street. Six other people were injured in the four-vehicle crash. A 1988 Toyota Camry traveled eastbound in the westbound lanes. The three other vehicles were westbound, according to the State Patrol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth death near West Meeker Street in last four months <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":36096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-36095","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\/36095"}],"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\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36095"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}