{"id":100248,"date":"2018-04-22T15:05:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T21:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-dies-after-being-hit-by-vehicle\/"},"modified":"2018-04-22T15:05:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T21:05:47","slug":"man-dies-after-being-hit-by-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-dies-after-being-hit-by-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after being hit by vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=bea141a4-e2a8-4e34-8956-ea270aabe85c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=bea141a4-e2a8-4e34-8956-ea270aabe85c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=bea141a4-e2a8-4e34-8956-ea270aabe85c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=bea141a4-e2a8-4e34-8956-ea270aabe85c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"831\" height=\"467\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Durango man was fatally struck by a vehicle early Saturday morning on U.S. Highway 160 near the intersection of County Road 225A.<\/p>\n<p>Capt. Adrian Driscoll of the Colorado State Patrol identified the man as Mark Deuel, 43.<\/p>\n<p>Driscoll said Deuel was lying in the middle of the road about 1:20 a.m. Saturday near mile marker 94 when he was hit by a westbound 2001 Suzuki Swift driven by Pagosa Springs resident Dana Clark, 47.<\/p>\n<p>Clark\u2019s vehicle ran off the road after the impact, Driscoll said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the incident is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know why he was in the middle of the road,\u201d Driscoll said. \u201cWe are still investigating who he is and why he was out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Driscoll said speed and alcohol are not suspected on the part of the driver, but alcohol may have been a factor in why Deuel was in the road.<\/p>\n<p>Clark was not cited in the collision.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mrupani@durangoherald.com\">mrupani@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collision happened on U.S. Highway 160<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[254,69],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-100248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-road-crash","tag-u-s-highway-160"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100248","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=100248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100248"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=100248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}