{"id":62586,"date":"2023-05-03T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/home2\/auburn-man-63-dies-in-wrong-way-crash-in-renton\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T18:32:00","slug":"auburn-man-63-dies-in-wrong-way-crash-in-renton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/auburn-man-63-dies-in-wrong-way-crash-in-renton\/","title":{"rendered":"Auburn man, 63, dies in wrong-way crash in Renton"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 63-year-old Auburn man died as a result of a fatal two-vehicle collision in the early morning hours of April 30 in Renton.<\/p>\n

Washington State Patrol troopers arrested a 35-year-old Tacoma man for investigation of vehicular homicide.<\/p>\n

According to a news release from the State Patrol, the 35-year-old driver traveled the wrong way, driving northbound on State Route 167 in the southbound lanes at Talbot Street at 2:50 a.m. He collided head-on with the 63-year-old man’s vehicle. The 63-year-old man died at the scene.<\/p>\n

First responders transported the 35-year-old driver to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for injuries sustained in the incident.<\/p>\n

According to the news release, the incident involved drugs or alcohol by the Tacoma driver. The collision resulted in the roadway being blocked for four hours and 16 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The collision happened just before 3 a.m. April 30 on Highway 167 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1153,"featured_media":62587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-62586","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\/62586"}],"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\/1153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62586"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=62586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}