{"id":57313,"date":"2022-05-16T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/man-32-dies-in-car-crash-near-kent-along-east-valley-highway-update\/"},"modified":"2022-05-16T16:36:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T23:36:40","slug":"man-32-dies-in-car-crash-near-kent-along-east-valley-highway-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/man-32-dies-in-car-crash-near-kent-along-east-valley-highway-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 32, dies in car crash near Kent along East Valley Highway | Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adam Heinke, 32, died in a fatal crash May 12 along the East Valley Highway in an unincorporated part of Kent.<\/p>\n

Heinke died from multiple blunt force injuries and the manner of death was accident, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office.<\/p>\n

Puget Sound Fire and the King County Sheriff’s Office responded at about 3:19 a.m. to a crash along the East Valley Highway, aka 83rd Avenue South, near South 277th Street<\/a>, according to a Sheriff’s Office spokesperson.<\/p>\n

“It was reported that the vehicle went down an embankment,” according to an email from the spokesperson.<\/p>\n

A photo released by Puget Sound Fire showed a car crashed into a tree. Puget Sound Fire also reported that East Valley Highway was closed after the crash between South 266th Street and South 277th Street.<\/p>\n

“This remains an open case so we are unable to share this information at this time,” said a Sheriff’s Office spokesperson when asked for details about how the crash occurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vehicle smashed May 12 into tree near South 277th Street <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":57314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57313"}],"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=57313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57313"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=57313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}