{"id":100019,"date":"2018-05-02T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tow-truck-driver-slides-off-molas-pass-on-icy-roads\/"},"modified":"2018-05-02T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T01:54:00","slug":"tow-truck-driver-slides-off-molas-pass-on-icy-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/tow-truck-driver-slides-off-molas-pass-on-icy-roads\/","title":{"rendered":"Tow truck driver slides off Molas Pass on icy roads"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Don Curnow, owner of Animas Towing & Recovery, slid off U.S. Highway 550 on the south side of Molas Pass near the Lime Creek curve Wednesday afternoon.<\/span>Courtesy of Bruce Conrad\/via Silverton Standard<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The driver, Don Curnow of Animas Towing & Recovery, was responding to two other stuck vehicles on the icy pass when his truck rolled twice before coming to a stop 150-feet below the road, said San Juan County Sheriff Bruce Conrad.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe actually walked himself to the roadside,\u201d Conrad said. \u201cHe actually was en route to the hospital within 35 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Curnow broke his sternum as well as three vertebrae, and is back at home, Conrad said.<\/p>\n

The only passenger was Curnow\u2019s dog, a 7-month-old British bull dog named Dozer.<\/p>\n

Dozer survived the crash and was hiding from rescuers. He was hypothermic but is recovering.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dog knows me, so it took my voice to get the dog out from under the tree he was hiding under,\u201d Conrad said.<\/p>\n

Conrad said the totaled truck is scheduled to be recovered Thursday.<\/p>\n

The crashes occurred about 3:50 p.m. at mile marker 60.5, said Capt. Adrian Driscoll with the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t have anything serious, just a bunch of slide-offs,\u201d Driscoll said. \u201cPeople can\u2019t get to where they need to go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conditions were extremely dangerous. Multiple drivers became stuck and slid off the road, but no one else was injured, Conrad said.<\/p>\n

The highway remained open, and drivers were getting through \u201clittle by little,\u201d Driscoll said at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of a mess right now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

rsimonovich@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Curnow, owner of Animas Towing & Recovery, slid off U.S. Highway 550 on the south side of Molas Pass near the Lime Creek curve Wednesday afternoon.Courtesy of Bruce Conrad\/via Silverton Standard The driver, Don Curnow of Animas Towing & Recovery, was responding to two other stuck vehicles on the icy pass when his truck […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[254,1384],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-100019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-road-crash","tag-u-s-highway-550"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100019"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=100019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}