{"id":18927,"date":"2017-09-08T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=18927"},"modified":"2017-09-08T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T12:00:01","slug":"defiance-post-investigating-fatal-crash-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/defiance-post-investigating-fatal-crash-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Defiance Post investigating Fatal Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-7871\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/medical2.jpg?resize=366%2C236\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"236\" \/>Defiance \u2014 The Defiance State Highway Patrol Post is currently investigating a single vehicle fatal crash which occurred on September 8, 2017, at approximately 2:10am on State Route 111, near milepost 2, south of the city of Defiance. A 2003 Chevrolet Trailblazer, driven by Darius King, age 39, of Defiance, Ohio, was northbound on State Route 111. The vehicle traveled off the right side of the roadway and struck a tree. Mr. King was pronounced dead at the scene by the Defiance County Coroner. A seatbelt was in use by Mr. King at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Assisting at the scene were the Defiance County Sheriff&#8217;s office, Defiance City Fire Department, Defiance City EMS and the Defiance County Coroner&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defiance \u2014 The Defiance State Highway Patrol Post is currently investigating a single vehicle fatal crash which occurred on September<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[446,473,826,746,12,468],"class_list":["post-18927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-government-legal","tag-accident","tag-defiance","tag-fatality","tag-highway","tag-ohio","tag-police"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YQd9-4Vh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 13:27:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}