Pedestrian killed in Kent July 18 by vehicle along Pacific Highway

Kent Police continue to investigate a collision between a vehicle and pedestrian that killed a 55-year-old man as he crossed Pacific Highway South.

Luis G. Jimenez Rodriguez died from multiple blunt force injuries in the July 18 collision, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office, which ruled his death an accident.

Police arrested a 35-year-old Federal Way resident for investigation of DUI-marijuana and first-degree negligent driving with a vulnerable user, according to a July 21 email from Kent Police Chief Rafael Padilla. A person commits negligent driving with a vulnerable user when he or she operates a vehicle in a manner that is both negligent and endangers any person and proximately causes the death of a vulnerable user of a public way, according to state law…

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