{"id":41591,"date":"2019-07-24T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-police-investigating-train-pedestrian-collision-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2019-07-25T09:44:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T16:44:30","slug":"kent-police-investigating-train-pedestrian-collision-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-police-investigating-train-pedestrian-collision-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed by Sound Transit Sounder train in Kent | Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was killed at about 4:03 p.m. Wednesday after he was hit by a southbound Sound Transit Sounder train on the BNSF Railway tracks at <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/1UvdYA4t43FmF3Rk7\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\">South 212th Street and 77th Avenue <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/1UvdYA4t43FmF3Rk7\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\">South<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was a Sound Transit commuter train, said BNSF Railway spokesman Gus Melonas in a phone call. Initial Kent Police reports indicated it had been an Amtrak train.<\/p>\n<p>The man died on impact, Kent Police spokeswoman Melanie Robinson said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Sound Transit announced at about 4:30 p.m. that no further trains will depart Seattle&rsquo;s King Street Station at this time. Passengers can take regularly scheduled buses which have been posted online.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the second train-pedestrian death in two days in Kent.<\/p>\n<p>A man was hit and killed by a southbound Amtrak train at about 7:50 a.m. Tuesday while walking on the BNSF Railway tracks near First Avenue South and West Willis Street.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Trains move on any track at anytime,&rdquo; Melonas said. &ldquo;People need to be aware of traffic 24\/7.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Editor&rsquo;s Note<\/strong>: This story has been corrected from an earlier version.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday afternoon near South 212th Street and 77th Avenue South <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":41592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-41591","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\/41591"}],"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=41591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41591"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}