{"id":62326,"date":"2020-07-30T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/man-flown-to-seattle-after-early-morning-crash\/"},"modified":"2020-07-31T11:34:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T19:34:57","slug":"man-flown-to-seattle-after-early-morning-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/man-flown-to-seattle-after-early-morning-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Man flown to Seattle after early morning crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a developing story and will be updated as more is known. <\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n

A man injured in a vehicle crash early Friday morning was medevac’d to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, according to Juneau Police Department. The man is in critical condition, a Harborview spokespoerson said in an email.<\/p>\n

At just before 2 a.m., JPD got word of a single vehicle crash near the 2300 block of Mendenhall Loop Road, said Lt. Krag Campbell in a news release. The vehicle struck a light pole and an injured person was in the road, Campbell said.<\/p>\n

JPD and Capital City Fire\/Rescue responded and located a 39-year-old man in the roadway who was injured but conscious, having been ejected from the vehicle after striking and destroying a light pole. Officers determined he was the driver and sole occupant of the vehicle, Campbell said.<\/p>\n

The driver was transported immediately to Bartlett Regional Hospital, where the decision was made to medevac him to Harborview, Campbell said. A family member had been notified of the crash, Campbell said, but police did not release the identity of the driver.<\/p>\n

The crash, including whether the driver was under the influence at the time, is under investigation, Campbell said.<\/p>\n

• Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at 757-621-1197 or lockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The man, whose name has not yet been released, was ejected from the vehicle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":62327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[660,75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-62326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-car-crash","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62326"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=62326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}