{"id":68359,"date":"2024-03-01T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/vehicle-strikes-injures-two-juvenile-pedestrians-in-kent\/"},"modified":"2024-03-01T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T21:45:00","slug":"vehicle-strikes-injures-two-juvenile-pedestrians-in-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/vehicle-strikes-injures-two-juvenile-pedestrians-in-kent\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle strikes, injures two juvenile pedestrians in Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two juveniles, ages 14 and 12, suffered &ldquo;significant&rdquo; injuries in Kent after they were hit by a vehicle Wednesday, Feb. 28 <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/7h1WwWPzr8SjbYEi6\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\" rel=\"noopener\">in the 25600 block of 101st Avenue SE<\/a>, near Kent-Meridian High School.<\/p>\n<p>The two juveniles ran across the street at 101st Avenue SE and SE 256th Street, according to a March 1 email from Kent Police Assistant Chief Jarod Kasner.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Although they were in the crosswalk, they ran across on a red light,&rdquo; Kasner said. &ldquo;Traffic had the green light for travel and the juveniles were struck while running across the roadway.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The collision occurred at about 4:49 p.m., according to Puget Sound Fire.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Their injuries were significant and they were taken to the hospital,&rdquo; Kasner said.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle driver, an 18-year-old Kent man, remained on the scene and cooperated with traffic investigators, Kasner said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There were no indications that impairment was a factor for the driver of the vehicle,&rdquo; Kasner said.<\/p>\n<p>Police shut down traffic in both directions along SE 256th Street during the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say the juveniles ran across SE 256th Street on Feb. 28 while traffic had the green light <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":68360,"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\/68359"}],"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=68359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68359"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=68359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}