{"id":16825,"date":"2025-08-20T18:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T00:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mans-body-found-on-side-of-road-northeast-of-durango\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:02:08","slug":"mans-body-found-on-side-of-road-northeast-of-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mans-body-found-on-side-of-road-northeast-of-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"Man\u2019s body found on side of road northeast of Durango"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d1f43884-c744-586e-b030-0470460dc753&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the coroner\u2019s office prepare to move a man\u2019s body near the Shearer Creek Trailhead on Tuesday evening. (Scout Edmondson\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the coroner\u2019s office prepare to move a man\u2019s body near the Shearer Creek Trailhead on Tuesday evening. (Scout Edmondson\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A man was found dead Tuesday evening near the Shearer Creek Trailhead on Florida Road (County Road 240) northeast of Durango.<\/p>\n<p>La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office spokesman Chris Burke said preliminary investigations revealed the cause of death was \u201caccidental.\u201d The department has yet to release the victim\u2019s identity, saying next of kin has not yet been notified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis call originated at 5:05 p.m., when a passerby requested assistance at the bottom of the Shearer Creek Trailhead,\u201d Burke said. \u201cThe deceased\u2019s vehicle was towed from the scene, and the next of kin have not been notified yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of residents drove past the scene Tuesday evening during the evening commute.<\/p>\n<p>Burke described the incident as an accident but declined to elaborate. He said no public danger exists.<\/p>\n<p>Burke said more information about the man\u2019s identity and the cause of death will be released once the coroner and the Sheriff\u2019s Office notifies next of kin.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-754f673daf337c1a67b00a4dd7408560\"><a href=\"mailto:sedmondson@durangoherald.com\">sedmondson@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>County Sheriff\u2019s Office releases few details<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,1901],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-16825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-la-plata-county-sheriff"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16825","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=16825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20413,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16825\/revisions\/20413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16825"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=16825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}