{"id":56300,"date":"2022-03-28T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/pedestrian-crossing-i-5-in-kent-struck-killed-by-pickup\/"},"modified":"2022-03-28T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T19:26:00","slug":"pedestrian-crossing-i-5-in-kent-struck-killed-by-pickup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/pedestrian-crossing-i-5-in-kent-struck-killed-by-pickup\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian crossing I-5 in Kent struck, killed by pickup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 35-year-old Lakewood man was crossing Interstate 5 in Kent when he was hit and killed by a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at about 4:32 p.m. Friday, March 25 along northbound I-5 near State Route 516, according to the Washington State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>A 2020 Ram 1500 pickup driven by a 63-year-old Ocean Park man was northbound in lane 5 just north of South 260th Street, according to the State Patrol. The vehicle struck a pedestrian who was crossing the northbound lanes from east to west in the HOV lane.<\/p>\n<p>Dominic G. Njuguna died at the scene, according to the State Patrol. It was unknown if drugs or alcohol were involved. The freeway was blocked for about 2 hours and 30 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northbound Friday, March 25 on freeway near State Route 516 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":56301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-56300","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\/56300"}],"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=56300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56300"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=56300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}