{"id":61637,"date":"2023-01-23T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/auburn-man-18-dies-in-four-vehicle-crash-saturday-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2023-01-23T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T22:42:00","slug":"auburn-man-18-dies-in-four-vehicle-crash-saturday-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/auburn-man-18-dies-in-four-vehicle-crash-saturday-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn man, 18, dies in four-vehicle crash Saturday in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old Auburn man was killed in a four-vehicle crash Saturday morning, Jan. 21 at <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/NWsoeNyKLG3y5faJ7\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener\">1734 Central Ave. S., in Kent, near South 266th Street.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred at about 10:39 a.m., according to Kent Police. The Auburn teen was the driver of one of the vehicles. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics transported two other people to an area hospital. Police did not have an update about their condition.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The cause of the accident is still being investigated,&rdquo; Kent Police Assistant Chief Jarod Kasner said in a Jan. 23 email. &ldquo;Initial reports indicate speed as a possible contributing factor.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The speed limit is 40 mph along the street.<\/p>\n<p>The crash caused Central Avenue South to be closed in both directions between South 266th Street an South 277th Street, according to the City Public Works Department<\/p>\n<p>The King County Medical Examiner&rsquo;s Office has not yet released the name of the Auburn teen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teen was driver of one of the vehicles along Central Avenue South <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":61638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-61637","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\/61637"}],"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=61637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61637"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=61637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}