An 83-year-old Kent man driving Tuesday morning, Feb. 20 along 132nd Avenue SE reportedly pulled over to the side of the road for a medical emergency he was having, left the car in gear and it continued forward until crashing.<\/p>\n
The man was pronounced dead at the scene but initial information suggests the crash was not the cause of death, according to a Feb. 21 email from Kent Police Assistant Chief Jarod Kasner. The incident occurred at about 10:16 a.m. along 132nd Avenue SE near SE 231st Place, just north of Sunrise Elementary School<\/a>.<\/p>\n Paramedics transported an 81-year-old female passenger, the wife of the driver, to a local hospital with minor injuries, Kasner said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reportedly died from medical issue prior to single-car crash Feb. 2o along 132nd Avenue SE <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":68170,"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\/68169"}],"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=68169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68169"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=68169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}