{"id":67696,"date":"2024-01-24T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T01:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/troopers-arrest-sr-167-wrong-way-driver-near-kent-for-vehicular-assault\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T09:46:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T17:46:15","slug":"troopers-arrest-sr-167-wrong-way-driver-near-kent-for-vehicular-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/troopers-arrest-sr-167-wrong-way-driver-near-kent-for-vehicular-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Troopers arrest SR 167 wrong-way driver near Kent for vehicular assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington State Patrol troopers arrested a man for investigation of vehicular assault after he reportedly drove the wrong way on State Route 167 near Kent and smashed into another vehicle northbound near South 180th Street.<\/p>\n

Cesar Said Ramos Mejia, 20, of Kirkland, allegedly drive his Ford Mustang southbound in the northbound lanes of SR 167 at about 2:15 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 21, according to the State Patrol. A 911 call reported the collision.<\/p>\n

The Mustang reportedly entered the freeway from South 180th Street and headed the wrong way, according to the State Patrol. Troopers determined that Mejia was reportedly impaired.<\/p>\n

A 45-year-old Lake Tapps man, the driver of the other vehicle, sustained serious injuries.<\/p>\n

The State Patrol is seeking witnesses to the collision, including those who stopped at the scene and spoke with troopers. Email Detective Russ Haake at russ.haake@wsp.wa.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ford Mustang collided with another vehicle Jan. 21 near South 180th Street <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":67697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-67696","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\/67696"}],"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=67696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67696"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=67696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}