{"id":49116,"date":"2021-03-11T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-man-25-critically-injured-in-highway-18-head-on-crash\/"},"modified":"2021-03-11T11:51:48","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T19:51:48","slug":"kent-man-25-critically-injured-in-highway-18-head-on-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-man-25-critically-injured-in-highway-18-head-on-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent man, 25, critically injured in Highway 18 head-on crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 25-year-old Kent man and a 30-year-old Tacoma woman remained in critical condition after a head-on collision early Thursday morning, March 11 along Highway 18 near Kent and Auburn.<\/p>\n<p>Both are critical in ICU, according to a spokesperson late Thursday morning, March 11 at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>The Tacoma woman was driving a 1999 Lexus ES eastbound in the westbound lanes just west of Southeast 304th Street, according to the State Patrol. The Kent man was driving a 2009 Toyota Camry westbound in the westbound lanes when the cars collided. Both drivers were alone in their vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The Lexus rotated and came to rest on top of a metal guardrail on the left shoulder. The Camry rotated and came to rest on the right shoulder, facing the wrong way. Both cars were totaled.<\/p>\n<p>State Patrol closed the highway for more than four hours. The crash occurred at about 2:33 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The cause remains under investigation and it is unknown if alcohol or drugs were involved, according to the State Patrol. Charges are pending against the Tacoma woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tacoma woman, 30, also critically hurt in collision near Kent <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":49117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-49116","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\/49116"}],"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=49116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49116"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=49116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}