{"id":42739,"date":"2019-10-18T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-police-investigating-fatal-collision\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T15:30:00","slug":"kent-police-investigating-fatal-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-police-investigating-fatal-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Police investigating fatal collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Police are investigating a motorcycle fatality collision that occurred in the 26300 block of Pacific Highway South on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>At 10:47 p.m., Kent officers were dispatched to a traffic collision and arrived on scene to find a downed motorcyclist. Lifesaving efforts were immediately started by the responding officers, until the Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority arrived to take over efforts. The rider, a 46-year-old Tacoma man, succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary information by witnesses indicate that the lone motorcycle rider was traveling at a high rate of speed northbound on the highway when he swerved, struck the curb, and was thrown from the motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>Police traffic investigators are investigating the circumstances that contributed to the collision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Police are investigating a motorcycle fatality collision that occurred in the 26300 block of Pacific Highway South on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":42740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-42739","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\/42739"}],"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=42739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42739"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}