{"id":21764,"date":"2025-06-19T18:50:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T00:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/head-on-collision-near-cortez-closes-u-s-highway-160-near-fairgrounds\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:09:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:09:19","slug":"head-on-collision-near-cortez-closes-u-s-highway-160-near-fairgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/head-on-collision-near-cortez-closes-u-s-highway-160-near-fairgrounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Head-on collision near Cortez closes U.S. Highway 160 near fairgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=37529e80-d134-500c-ae3c-8fcdd30c956d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Traffic backed up along U.S. Highway 160 east of Cortez near the Montezuma County Fairgrounds.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Traffic backed up along U.S. Highway 160 east of Cortez near the Montezuma County Fairgrounds.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Benjamin Rubin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A head-on collision Thursday morning killed one person and injured another on U.S. Highway 160 east of Cortez near the fairgrounds, according to Montezuma County Sheriff Steven Nowlin.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. 160 is closed to eastbound and westbound traffic, and drivers are encouraged to use alternative routes.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic is backed up along the highway at the fairgrounds and the Colorado Department of Transportation was redirecting vehicles, Nowlin said.<\/p>\n<p>It was not known when the highway would reopen.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 4:38 p.m: Road closed between County Road 29 and County Road 34, 4 miles east of Cortez. Colorado Department of Transportation is detouring cars.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-7767102a43d881ba2bdb51e326b0cf6e\">This is a developing story, and updates will be provided at the-journal.com when they become available.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheriff: Collision kills one, injures another<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21742,"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-21764","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\/21764","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=21764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77447,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764\/revisions\/77447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21764"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=21764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}