{"id":59092,"date":"2022-07-26T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-police-officer-suffers-minor-injuries-in-vehicle-collision\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T23:02:00","slug":"kent-police-officer-suffers-minor-injuries-in-vehicle-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-police-officer-suffers-minor-injuries-in-vehicle-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Police officer suffers minor injuries in vehicle collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Kent Police officer sustained minor injuries after colliding with another vehicle at about 9 a.m. Tuesday, July 26 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/WGdnAWrYPciwhG7R6\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener\">at the intersection of 116th Avenue Southeast and Southeast 208th Street<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We had an officer responding to an emergency call driving with lights and siren on,&rdquo; Kent Police Chief Rafael Padilla said in an email. &ldquo;The officer was attempting to clear the intersection of 116th Avenue SE and SE 208th Street. A vehicle was traveling south through the intersection and that vehicle and the patrol vehicle collided.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Padilla said the officer sustained minor injuries but was transported to a local hospital for evaluation and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the other vehicle sustained a fracture to one of his legs and was taken to a hospital for additional treatment, Padilla said. The vehicle had three passengers who sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Padilla said traffic investigators are trying to determine the cause of the collision. Police closed the intersection for about two hours.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is an active investigation, so I do not have additional information at this time,&rdquo; Padilla said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other driver sustained a broken leg in July 26 crash at SE 208th Street and 116th Avenue SE <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":59093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-59092","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\/59092"}],"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=59092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59092"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=59092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}