{"id":22375,"date":"2025-05-05T22:18:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/emergency-crews-respond-to-driver-dangling-off-side-of-coal-bank-pass\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:12:59","slug":"emergency-crews-respond-to-driver-dangling-off-side-of-coal-bank-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/emergency-crews-respond-to-driver-dangling-off-side-of-coal-bank-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency crews respond to driver dangling off side of Coal Bank Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b0758bb1-449d-5ae7-80f8-04ef6158b6ad&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1055\" alt=\"A pickup truck towing a 30-foot trailer was reportedly hanging off the side of a cliff Monday afternoon on Coal Bank Pass. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A pickup truck towing a 30-foot trailer was reportedly hanging off the side of a cliff Monday afternoon on Coal Bank Pass. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A pickup truck towing a 30-foot camper was reportedly dangling off the side of the road and a cliff face Monday afternoon on Coal Bank Pass, between Purgatory Resort and Silverton.<\/p>\n<p>Several trees were preventing the Ram 2500 and trailer from falling down the cliff, said Colorado State Patrol Capt. Angela DeGuelle. One person was trapped in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>DeGuelle said deputies from the San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office were on scene and a tow truck had arrived, but the driver remained inside the vehicle as of 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A lane on U.S. Highway 550 was closed for a brief period of time as emergency crews alternated traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was rescued from the truck at about 4 p.m. and the vehicle was towed back onto the highway shortly after, DeGuelle said. The driver was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred because the truck had bad tires and was driving too fast over the pass, DeGuelle said.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-e1a4318d0478d4f50129f0278dc3f8b0\"><a href=\"mailto:jbowman@durangoherald.com\">jbowman@durangoherald.com<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ram truck towing a 30-foot camper was perched on cliff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2235,28,254,1384],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coal-bank-pass","tag-headlines","tag-road-crash","tag-u-s-highway-550"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22375","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=22375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77684,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22375\/revisions\/77684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22375"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}