{"id":68130,"date":"2024-02-15T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/port-townsend-man-injured-in-i-5-hit-and-run-crash-near-kent\/"},"modified":"2024-02-15T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T22:25:00","slug":"port-townsend-man-injured-in-i-5-hit-and-run-crash-near-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/port-townsend-man-injured-in-i-5-hit-and-run-crash-near-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Townsend man injured in I-5 hit-and-run crash near Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Port Townsend man was injured in a hit-and-run vehicle collision Thursday morning, Feb. 15 along Interstate 5 in SeaTac, just north of Kent.<\/p>\n

The crash occurred along southbound I-5 at about 6:22 a.m., just north of South 200th Street, according to the Washington State Patrol.<\/p>\n

A vehicle was traveling southbound in lane one when it collided with a disabled vehicle on the right shoulder, according to the State Patrol. The first vehicle drifted from lane one to the right shoulder. Both vehicles came to rest in a ditch.<\/p>\n

The driver of the first vehicle, a 2016 BMW X3, fled on foot. Paramedics transported the 28-year-old man in the second vehicle, a 2001 Honda Civic, to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. He had to be extricated from his vehicle, according to Puget Sound Fire.<\/p>\n

The crash closed the freeway for about four hours and 30 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early Thursday morning, Feb. 15 near South 200th Street; driver flees on foot <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":68131,"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\/68130"}],"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=68130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68130"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=68130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}