{"id":101733,"date":"2018-01-23T15:18:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T22:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-dies-in-single-vehicle-crash-on-u-s-highway-550\/"},"modified":"2018-01-23T15:18:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T22:18:26","slug":"man-dies-in-single-vehicle-crash-on-u-s-highway-550","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-dies-in-single-vehicle-crash-on-u-s-highway-550\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in single-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 550"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ea9dde20-78ae-4c15-af0f-ee2955d336a2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ea9dde20-78ae-4c15-af0f-ee2955d336a2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ea9dde20-78ae-4c15-af0f-ee2955d336a2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ea9dde20-78ae-4c15-af0f-ee2955d336a2&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 killed in a single-vehicle crash Monday night north of city limits on U.S. Highway 550.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was identified as Randal Ponce, 56, said Capt. Adrian Driscoll, with the Colorado State Patrol in Durango.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred shortly after 7:30 p.m. near mile marker 29.5, which is about four miles north of city limits and a mile south of Trimble Lane (County Road 252).<\/p>\n<p>Ponce was driving a 2003 green Chevrolet Tahoe northbound on Highway 550 when he drifted off the left side of the road, struck a tree and continued into a field, Driscoll said.<\/p>\n<p>Police were unsure why Ponce drifted into the southbound lane and off the left side of the road; drugs and alcohol are not suspected, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ponce was wearing a seat belt, and speed is not suspected to be a factor, Driscoll said.<\/p>\n<p>Highway 550 was closed while police investigated the scene, according to a tweet sent by the State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicle drifts off left side of road, collides with tree<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[202,254,1384],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-101733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-briefs","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\/101733","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=101733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101733"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=101733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}