{"id":43150,"date":"2019-11-14T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/vehicle-strikes-kills-des-moines-pedestrian-on-pacific-highway-south\/"},"modified":"2019-11-15T11:05:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T19:05:01","slug":"vehicle-strikes-kills-des-moines-pedestrian-on-pacific-highway-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/vehicle-strikes-kills-des-moines-pedestrian-on-pacific-highway-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle strikes, kills Des Moines pedestrian | Update: man identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vehicle struck and killed a 42-year-old Des Moines man who had stepped into the street early Thursday morning <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/eXeWtHMwWEnzmtnz7\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in the 23000 block of Pacific Highway South<\/a>, just north of Kent Des Moines Road.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before 1 a.m., a vehicle traveling southbound on Pacific Highway South struck a pedestrian, according to an email from Des Moines Police Cmdr. Mike Graddon. The man died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Vicente Simaj Ixchop died from multiple blunt force injuries, according to the King County Medical Examiner&rsquo;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There was one witness to the collision and it appears the pedestrian was in dark clothing and not utilizing the crosswalk,&rdquo; Graddon said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, a 26-year-old man, remained on the scene and cooperated with police. Drugs and\/or alcohol were not a factor with the driver, Graddon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early Nov. 14 near Kent Des Moines Road <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":43151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-43150","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\/43150"}],"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=43150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43150"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=43150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}