{"id":55561,"date":"2022-02-28T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/state-patrol-seeks-witnesses-to-kent-hit-and-run-on-highway-167\/"},"modified":"2022-02-28T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T00:51:00","slug":"state-patrol-seeks-witnesses-to-kent-hit-and-run-on-highway-167","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/state-patrol-seeks-witnesses-to-kent-hit-and-run-on-highway-167\/","title":{"rendered":"State Patrol seeks witnesses to Kent hit and run on Highway 167"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington State Patrol is seeking the public&rsquo;s help to find a hit-and-run driver that reportedly struck a vehicle in Kent and injured two people at about 2 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 27.<\/p>\n<p>A 911 call reported a collision northbound on Highway 167 just south of South 212th Street, according to the State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers discovered a vehicle off the road on fire. The three occupants were out of the vehicle. A passenger suffered a broken arm and the driver sustained a cut arm.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said that a white sedan traveling at a high rate of speed struck the vehicle causing it to leave the roadway, strike a tree and catch fire. The white sedan fled the scene. The driver is being sought for felony hit and run, according to the State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are asking anyone with information about the sedan and its driver to contact Detective Ruth Medeiros at Ruth.Medeiros@wsp.wa.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driver sought for felony hit and run Feb. 27 near South 212th Street that injured two <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":55562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-55561","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\/55561"}],"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=55561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55561"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=55561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}