{"id":61640,"date":"2023-01-23T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-pedestrian-70-dies-after-collision-with-vehicle-on-east-hill\/"},"modified":"2023-01-23T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T23:12:00","slug":"kent-pedestrian-70-dies-after-collision-with-vehicle-on-east-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-pedestrian-70-dies-after-collision-with-vehicle-on-east-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent pedestrian, 70, dies after collision with vehicle on East Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 70-year-old Kent man died after he was hit by a vehicle while walking across SE Kent-Kangley Road.<\/p>\n<p>The collision occurred at about 5:07 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 21 <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/6wki42SgV8zrZvoPA\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener\">in the 12900 block of SE Kent-Kangley Road<\/a>, according to Kent Police.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics transported the man to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he later died, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The driver remained on the scene and cooperated with investigators, according to a Jan. 23 email from Kent Police Assistant Chief Jarod Kasner.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There were no indications that impairment or speed were a factor,&rdquo; Kasner said.<\/p>\n<p>Kasner said the man was not in a crosswalk when he was struck.<\/p>\n<p>The King County Medical Examiner&rsquo;s Office has not yet released the man&rsquo;s identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man was crossing SE Kent-Kangley Road Saturday evening, Jan. 21 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":61641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-61640","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\/61640"}],"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=61640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61640"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=61640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}