{"id":5526,"date":"2012-11-19T09:26:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T14:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=5526"},"modified":"2012-11-19T09:26:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T14:26:20","slug":"two-die-in-rt-41-crash-with-tractor-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=5526","title":{"rendered":"Two die in Rt. 41 crash with tractor-trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Police said Wilmington pair had just left Mexican restaurant<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Route41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5528\" style=\"margin: 4px;\" title=\"Route41\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Route41-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Route41-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Route41-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Route41.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a>KENNETT \u2014 A crash between an SUV and a tractor-trailer Sunday evening proved fatal for the two people in a gray Toyota Highlander, state police said this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police from the Avondale barracks said Matthew Petke, 39, of Wilmington, was attempting to make a left-hand turn to head south from the Taqueria Moroleon restaurant on Rt. 41 near Skyview Lane in Kennett Township at 6:29 p.m. \u00a0Petke pulled in front of a tractor-trailer heading north, which struck the Highlander on the driver&#8217;s side, police said. Both Petke, and his passenger, Branda Petke, 45, also of Wilmington, were killed.<\/p>\n<p>Police, who were assisted by fire companies from Kennett Square Borough, Kennett, Avondale, and Longwood Fire Companies and multiple ambulance units, said the driver of the the tractor-trailer, a 35-year-old man from New Bethlehem, was not injured. An investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police said Wilmington pair had just left Mexican restaurant KENNETT \u2014 A crash between an SUV and a tractor-trailer Sunday evening proved fatal for the two people in a gray Toyota Highlander, state police said this morning. Police from the Avondale barracks said Matthew Petke, 39, of Wilmington, was attempting to make a left-hand turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1448,1001,1449,960,1450],"class_list":["post-5526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-avondale-fire-company","tag-kennett-fire-company","tag-longwood-fire-compan","tag-rt-41","tag-taqueria-moroleon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}