{"id":22705,"date":"2025-04-14T01:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T07:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/minor-veers-off-road-in-pleasant-view-crashes-into-building\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:16:27","slug":"minor-veers-off-road-in-pleasant-view-crashes-into-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/minor-veers-off-road-in-pleasant-view-crashes-into-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor veers off road in Pleasant View, crashes into building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=bd220ddd-12a6-533c-bdd1-d4ebd5457b42&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1290\" height=\"1069\" alt=\"A single-vehicle crash about 20 miles north of Cortez on U.S. Highway 491 in Pleasant View Sunday evening, March 30. (Reuben Schafir\/The Durango Herald )\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A single-vehicle crash about 20 miles north of Cortez on U.S. Highway 491 in Pleasant View Sunday evening, March 30. (Reuben Schafir\/The Durango Herald )<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A 17-year-old drowsy driver veered off the road in Pleasant View and crashed into a building on a sunny Sunday evening, March 30.<\/p>\n<p>The silver SUV was traveling northbound on Colorado Highway 491 when it ran off the right side of the road near Mile Point 46.5 at 6:43 p.m., according to a traffic report detailing the crash.<\/p>\n<p>It was a sunny, dry evening and the road was straight, in a non-intersection, when the crash happened.<\/p>\n<p>The SUV rolled over and crashed into the building.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle sustained \u201csevere damage,\u201d and if the owner of the building wanted to press charges, that would be a civil issue, said Colorado State Patrol Trooper Sherri Mendez.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was cited for failure to drive in a single lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>was dry, and the sun was shining<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22706,"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-22705","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\/22705","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=22705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77819,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22705\/revisions\/77819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22705"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}