{"id":66900,"date":"2023-12-22T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/home2\/renton-head-on-collision-involving-a-school-bus-kills-passenger-in-car\/"},"modified":"2023-12-22T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T00:44:00","slug":"renton-head-on-collision-involving-a-school-bus-kills-passenger-in-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/renton-head-on-collision-involving-a-school-bus-kills-passenger-in-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Renton head-on collision involving a school bus kills passenger in car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver is under investigation for DUI and vehicular homicide after a passenger in the driver&rsquo;s car died following a collision with a school bus.<\/p>\n<p>According to Renton Regional Fire Authority spokesperson Sara Morris, fire crews responded Dec. 19 to reports of a head-on collision on NE Third Street between Bronson Way NE and Edmonds Avenue NE. The collision reportedly involved a sedan and a school bus.<\/p>\n<p>Morris said when responders arrived on the scene, it was determined that one patient was trapped in a passenger vehicle and needed to be extricated by their crews. The roadway was shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Renton Police Department spokesperson Meeghan Black said initial police investigations identified that the sedan was traveling westbound at a high rate of speed on NE Third Street before the driver lost control of his car and hit a Renton School District bus coming up the hill. The impact of the collision killed the front passenger of the sedan.<\/p>\n<p>The driver and the rear passenger were taken to the hospital for minor injuries, according to Black. The driver of the sedan is under investigation for DUI and vehicular homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Black said there were two children and two adults on the bus. The children were not injured. The adults were taken to the hospital as a precaution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No children on the school bus were reported to be harmed in the Dec. 19 NE Third Street collision. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":849,"featured_media":66901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66900"}],"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\/849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66900"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=66900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}