{"id":16427,"date":"2025-09-23T23:04:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T23:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/three-car-crash-closes-one-lane-of-u-s-highway-160-west-of-bayfield\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T03:57:12","slug":"three-car-crash-closes-one-lane-of-u-s-highway-160-west-of-bayfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/three-car-crash-closes-one-lane-of-u-s-highway-160-west-of-bayfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-car crash closes one lane of U.S. Highway 160 west of Bayfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=192b808a-c004-553f-8e12-90d597360ae3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A three-car crash closed one lane of traffic Tuesday on U.S. Highway 160 west of Bayfield.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado State Patrol Sgt. Ivan Alvorado said one of the drivers broke a femur, and the person was being taken by helicopter to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraffic is getting by on the eastbound shoulder of Highway 160,\u201d Alvorado said. \u201cTow trucks are inbound for the other vehicles involved in the crash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to scanner traffic, the wreck caused air bags to deploy and fluids to leak from the cars.<\/p>\n<p>Alvorado said the crash in the 38000 block of Highway 160 initially closed both lanes of traffic but that responders were able to open the eastbound lane at 4:48 p.m. and begin alternating traffic past the scene.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-5c8245052f593cacc0d2a6fb1856335f\"><a href=\"mailto:sedmodnson@durangoherald.com\">sedmodnson@durangoherald.com<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials advise motorists take alternate route if possible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,254,69],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-16427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","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\/16427","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=16427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20195,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16427\/revisions\/20195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16427"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=16427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}