{"id":22807,"date":"2025-03-28T18:26:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T00:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-people-severely-injured-in-four-vehicle-crash-wednesday-night\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:18:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:18:00","slug":"two-people-severely-injured-in-four-vehicle-crash-wednesday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-people-severely-injured-in-four-vehicle-crash-wednesday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Two people severely injured in four-vehicle crash Wednesday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=4ff30c3a-1a95-5109-85bd-8e020da4ee7e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1114\" height=\"842\" alt=\"Journal file photo.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Journal file photo.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>About 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 26, two semitrailers, a Sheriff\u2019s Office vehicle and a passenger car collided on U.S. Highway 491 in Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were actually three separate crashes,\u201d said Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin.<\/p>\n<p>The crashes were at milepost 29.5, where Road M meets the highway.<\/p>\n\n<p>Nowlin said the deputy was westbound on Road M and failed to yield as he pulled out onto the highway. A northbound semitrailer collided with the patrol vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe patrol vehicle was totaled,\u201d he said, and the deputy\u2019s collarbone broke.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after, a Buick passenger car headed northbound on U.S. Highway 491 crashed into the semitrailer, as it wasn\u2019t lit up. That driver broke a leg, said Nowlin.<\/p>\n<p>The third and final crash involved another semitrailer, which dodged the crashed Buick but ran into the back of the unlit trailer.<\/p>\n<p>Though the deputy and other driver sustained \u201csevere injuries,\u201d they were \u201cnot life-threatening.\u201d Both parties were treated and released from the hospital, said Colorado State Patrol Sgt. Patrick Rice.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was closed until 1:34 a.m. Thursday, said Rice.<\/p>\n<p>About 150 gallons of diesel leaked onto the road, though it is unclear which vehicle leaked it, said Rice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sheriff\u2019s Office deputy and another person were taken to the hospital with broken bones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22808,"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-22807","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\/22807","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=22807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77863,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22807\/revisions\/77863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22807"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}