{"id":46081,"date":"2024-04-15T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rentonnews.us\/news\/dui-crash-in-renton-injures-three-cars-engulfed-in-flames\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T21:30:00","slug":"dui-crash-in-renton-injures-three-cars-engulfed-in-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/news\/dui-crash-in-renton-injures-three-cars-engulfed-in-flames\/","title":{"rendered":"DUI crash in Renton injures three; cars engulfed in flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fiery three-vehicle collision in Renton on April 14 injured three drivers, hospitalizing two.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Washington State Patrol, the collision, which occurred at 4:32 a.m. April 14, hospitalized a 38-year-old Puyallup man and 68-year-old Bellevue woman, and injured a 40-year-old Leavenworth man.<\/p>\n<p>First responders transported the 38-year-old man and 68-year-old woman to Overlake Medical Center in Bellevue.<\/p>\n<p>According to the state patrol, the collision resulted from a vehicle driving the wrong way. The incident involved substance use, with law enforcement charging the 38-year-old man with driving under the influence.<\/p>\n<p>According to the state patrol, the 38-year-old struck the 68-year-old woman&rsquo;s vehicle head-on as he traveled northbound &mdash; and as she traveled southbound &mdash; in the southbound lanes of Interstate 405, north of State Route 900 in lane one of three.<\/p>\n<p>According to the state patrol, the 40-year-old Leavenworth man swerved into the second lane to avoid the collision. The 38-year-old&rsquo;s vehicle bounced from the impact of the initial collision into the 40-year-old&rsquo;s vehicle, striking him.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old and 68-year-old&rsquo;s vehicles arrived at a stop in lane one of three, and the 40-year-old&rsquo;s vehicle in the third lane and left shoulder. Flames fully engulfed two of the vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The collision resulted in roadway blockages for approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes, according to the state patrol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fiery three-vehicle collision in Renton on April 14 injured three drivers, hospitalizing two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1126,"featured_media":46082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46081"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=46081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}