{"id":5888,"date":"2016-03-14T13:37:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T20:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/man-woman-killed-in-kent-car-crash-victims-identified\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T19:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T02:00:43","slug":"man-woman-killed-in-kent-car-crash-victims-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/man-woman-killed-in-kent-car-crash-victims-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, woman killed in Kent car crash; victims identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>A man and woman were killed and an infant injured in a car crash Sunday night in Kent along <a title=\"map\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Canyon+Dr,+Kent,+WA\/@47.3809087,-122.2187661,103m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x54905ead88cdfe75:0x9022d1c2830a7f15\" target=\"_self\">Canyon Drive near Weiland Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>All three were in a vehicle traveling eastbound on Canyon Drive when the male driver made a left turn toward Weiland Street and collided with a SUV going westbound on Canyon Drive, said Kent Police spokesman Jarod Kasner in a Monday phone interview.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Justin Riggins-Miller, 22, of Seattle, and Jasmarae Chapman, 20, of Kent, each died at the scene from injuries in the accident, according to the King County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The accident occurred at about 7:27 p.m. Kasner said he didn\u2019t know the relation between Riggins-Miller and Chapman or the child in a car seat in the back. All were wearing seat belts. Riggins-Miller was the driver.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Paramedics transported the infant, between the ages of 1 and 2, to a hospital as a precaution with minor injuries, Kasner said. He said he didn\u2019t have an exact number of how many people were in the SUV but nobody suffered life-threatening injuries in that vehicle.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u201cThe preliminary report doesn\u2019t suggest alcohol, drugs or erratic driving,\u201d Kasner said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Police continue to investigate the accident.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man and woman were killed and an infant injured in a car crash Sunday night in Kent along Canyon Drive near Weiland Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-5888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888"}],"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=5888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5888"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}