{"id":56332,"date":"2022-03-30T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/semi-crash-on-i-5-in-kent-causes-long-traffic-delays\/"},"modified":"2022-03-30T12:32:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T19:32:00","slug":"semi-crash-on-i-5-in-kent-causes-long-traffic-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/semi-crash-on-i-5-in-kent-causes-long-traffic-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi crash on I-5 in Kent causes long traffic delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver of a semi pulling two trailers lost control at about 3 a.m. Wednesday, March 30 on northbound Interstate 5 in Kent and caused a major traffic backup after taking out about 25 sections of guardrail, including 100 posts.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Somehow the truck jackknifed and took out a lot of guardrail,&rdquo; Washington State Patrol Trooper Rick Johnson said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said there was no impairment to the driver and he sustained only minor injuries if any at all. No other vehicles were involved.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am not sure if the roadway was wet at the time,&rdquo; Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>Lengthy delays continued all morning for commuters as crews had to remove the semi and then closed two right lanes near State Route 516 to repair the guardrail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driver takes out 25 sections of guardrail early Wednesday morning northbound near SR 516 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":56333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-56332","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\/56332"}],"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=56332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56332"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=56332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}