{"id":39526,"date":"2019-03-09T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/bicyclist-injured-in-hit-and-run-incident-kent-police-investigating\/"},"modified":"2019-03-12T13:44:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T20:44:34","slug":"bicyclist-injured-in-hit-and-run-incident-kent-police-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/bicyclist-injured-in-hit-and-run-incident-kent-police-investigating\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist injured in hit-and-run incident; Kent Police looking for the driver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kent Police are looking for the driver who was responsible for a hit-and-run incident that seriously injured a bicyclist in the area of Southeast 256th Street and 135th Avenue Southeast<\/a> last Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Officers responding to a 911 caller who told police that he found the victim, 47-year-old Andrew DinAlpha XR, on the ground. Police arrived and found the man conscious.<\/p>\n

The man, riding his tri-bike around 5:30 a.m., was heading westbound on SE 256th Street at 135th Avenue SE when he was hit from behind in the bike lane on the north side of 256th between a fire hydrant and telephone pole near the Metro bus stop.<\/p>\n

DinAlpha XR will need months of rehabilitation before he can walk again, according to the family.<\/p>\n

Police said they have no suspects but are looking for possibly a gray or silver vehicle with front end or passenger side damage.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Kent Police<\/a> at 253-852-2121.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kent Police are looking for the driver who was responsible for a hit-and-run incident that seriously injured a bicyclist in the area of Southeast 256th Street and 135th Avenue Southeast<\/a> last Friday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":39528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-39526","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\/39526"}],"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=39526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39526"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=39526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}