{"id":49801,"date":"2021-05-20T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/woman-seriously-injured-in-i-5-freeway-crash-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2021-05-20T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:08:00","slug":"woman-seriously-injured-in-i-5-freeway-crash-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/woman-seriously-injured-in-i-5-freeway-crash-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman seriously injured in I-5 freeway crash in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman suffered serious injuries when her vehicle was struck along the shoulder of Interstate 5 in Kent after the driver of a box truck reportedly fell asleep.<\/p>\n<p>The early Thursday morning, May 20 crash in the 25200 block of northbound I-5, just south of State Route 516, aka Kent Des Moines Road, caused long delays for commuters with the two right lanes blocked for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics transported the female driver to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with serious injuries, according to a tweet from Washington State Patrol Trooper Rick Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;At this point no suspected impairment on box truck driver,&rdquo; Johnson tweeted. &ldquo;Car was stopped on shoulder when struck. Driver of box truck possibly fell asleep.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicle struck on northbound shoulder just south of State Route 516 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":49802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-49801","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\/49801"}],"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=49801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49801"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=49801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}