{"id":16385,"date":"2025-09-26T23:20:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T05:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/car-drives-off-colorado-145-into-dolores-river\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:57:17","slug":"car-drives-off-colorado-145-into-dolores-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/car-drives-off-colorado-145-into-dolores-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Car drives off Colorado 145 into Dolores River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=ed0cc120-67d1-570d-a340-60d6c8b9a8aa&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A Dodge Ram left Colorado Highway 145 and entered the Dolores River on Friday morning, prompting a brief road closure in a single-vehicle crash in which alcohol is suspected as a potential cause.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred roughly seven miles east of the town of Dolores and caused a road closure from 9:16 a.m. to 10:07 a.m., according to an alert sent out by the Montezuma County Emergency Alert System.<\/p>\n<p>An officer at the scene reported that the vehicle ended up in a foot of water, according to Colorado State Patrol Sgt. Dillon Guinn.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation, with alcohol suspected as a factor, Guinn said.<\/p>\n<p>Guinn said no injuries were reported. The vehicle has since been removed from the river, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcohol is being investigated as a potential cause in single-vehicle accident <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-16385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16385","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=16385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20172,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16385\/revisions\/20172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16385"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=16385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}