A hit-and-run driver struck and killed a 63-year-old Federal Way woman Tuesday afternoon, Dec. 27 in downtown Kent.<\/p>\n
Initial reports from witnesses indicated that the woman was standing near the bus stop on the north side of West James Street, west of Fourth Avenue <\/a>North<\/a>, according to a Kent Police statement. The suspect vehicle was initially observed traveling west on James Street. The car reportedly left the roadway and drove onto the sidewalk, where it hit a light pole and then struck the woman.<\/p>\n Officers responded at about 4:40 p.m. to reports of a vehicle vs. pedestrian collision, according to police. Officers found the woman unconscious and lying in the roadway. Officers began life-saving efforts which medics took over, but the woman died at the scene.<\/p>\n The suspect vehicle is a dark-colored sedan. The driver fled after the collision. Traffic investigators are analyzing the evidence and witness accounts to try to identify the vehicle and suspect.<\/p>\n Anyone with information about the hit-and-run is asked to call the Kent Police tip line at 253-856-5808.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Woman was standing near bus stop on West James Street when vehicle left road and struck her <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":61370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-61369","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\/61369"}],"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=61369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61369"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=61369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}