{"id":61414,"date":"2023-01-03T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T23:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/home2\/renton-man-struck-killed-on-i-5-after-exiting-vehicle-following-collision\/"},"modified":"2023-01-03T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T23:29:00","slug":"renton-man-struck-killed-on-i-5-after-exiting-vehicle-following-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/renton-man-struck-killed-on-i-5-after-exiting-vehicle-following-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Renton man struck, killed on I-5 after exiting vehicle following collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After getting into a collision on northbound Interstate 5, a 33-year-old Renton man was hit and killed by another vehicle after exiting his car early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Just before 3 a.m. on Jan. 1, a Toyota Prius struck the rear of a Nissan Pathfinder on I-5 near Tukwila, causing the Prius to spin out across several lanes of the freeway, according to Washington State Patrol. The Prius ended up in a position that blocked two of the freeway lanes.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Prius that was obstructing the lanes exited the vehicle and was struck by a third vehicle. The Prius driver, a Renton man, was pronounced deceased at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the car that struck the man, a 66-year-old woman, was transported to Valley Medical Center with undisclosed injuries.<\/p>\n<p>According to Washington State Patrol, the roadway was blocked for almost four hours. The name of the deceased man has not yet been released. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incident happened on northbound I-5 near Tukwila on Sunday, Jan. 1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":849,"featured_media":61415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-61414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61414"}],"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\/849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61414"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=61414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}