{"id":52612,"date":"2021-10-31T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/hit-and-run-driver-kills-pedestrian-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2021-10-31T10:36:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T17:36:49","slug":"hit-and-run-driver-kills-pedestrian-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/hit-and-run-driver-kills-pedestrian-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit-and-run driver kills pedestrian in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hit-and-run driver struck and killed a 51-year-old Kent man in a crosswalk early Saturday morning, Oct. 30 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/spQZPuMjmaERUp9T7\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener\">near Central Avenue North and South 228th <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/spQZPuMjmaERUp9T7\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener\">Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded at about 4:30 a.m. and found the man unconscious and unresponsive, according to Kent Police. Life-saving efforts by officers and Puget Sound Fire personnel were unsuccessful and the man died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told police that the man was in a clearly marked crosswalk when he was struck by a vehicle. Witnesses said the driver may have run a red light.<\/p>\n<p>Officers located a vehicle a short distance from the collision that is believed to be the one that struck the man, according to police. The driver had fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police are following up leads and evidence into what they are investigating as a vehicular homicide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>51-year-old man dies in crosswalk early Saturday morning; police search for driver <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":52613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-52612","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\/52612"}],"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=52612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52612"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=52612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}