{"id":120744,"date":"2014-04-24T23:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/californian-dies-in-collision\/"},"modified":"2014-04-24T23:00:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T05:00:27","slug":"californian-dies-in-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/californian-dies-in-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Californian dies in collision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:a7ca2fcb-c317-41cc-9e5b-3a3ec79442b0 --><\/p>\n<p>A 40-year-old California man was pronounced dead on the scene after a head-on collision about 8 a.m. Wednesday on U.S. 491 north of Pleasant View.<\/p>\n<p>A Colorado State Patrol spokesperson said Gabriel Zamario Chavez died after his  southbound 2006 Honda SUV crossed the center line, hitting a 2014 International semi-trailer driven by Daniel Vanlandingham, 27, also of California. Vanlandingham suffered moderate injuries, and was transported to Southwest Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe SUV bounced off the truck,\u201d the CSP spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>The semi jack-knifed.<\/p>\n<p>The CSP spokesperson said no indicators \u2013 drug, alcohol, excessive speed or cellphone use \u2013 have been linked to the cause of the collision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth parties were wearing their seat belts,\u201d said the CSP spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>A final report is due in a few days and will include mechanical inspections of both vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>finds no cause of collision on U.S. 491, continues investigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[13],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-120744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-frontpage-lead"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120744","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=120744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120744"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=120744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}