{"id":22908,"date":"2025-03-31T22:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T04:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/u-s-highway-160-reopens-after-crash-south-of-durango\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:20:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:20:04","slug":"u-s-highway-160-reopens-after-crash-south-of-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/u-s-highway-160-reopens-after-crash-south-of-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Highway 160 reopens after crash south 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=192b808a-c004-553f-8e12-90d597360ae3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>An afternoon crash Monday closed all eastbound lanes of traffic on U.S. Highway 160 near the base of Farmington Hill. The highway reopened fully at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The eastbound lanes were fully blocked around 4:15, and two-way traffic was temporarily restored in the westbound lane before the highway fully reopened, according to Colorado State Patrol Capt. Angela DeGuelle.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred between mile posts 88 and 89.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"naviga-map\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=37.222365882754%2C-107.84556774946&amp;z=15&amp;output=embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Map\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>A 2013 Toyota Highlander driving west, downhill toward Durango, crossed into an eastbound lane and collided head-on with an oncoming 2001 Chevrolet Tahoe, DeGuelle said in a text message. Drivers of both vehicles were taken to Mercy Hospital with serious injures. Two juvenile passengers in the Tahoe were also taken to the hospital with \u201cmoderate injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All car occupants were wearing seat belts or child restraint devices.<\/p>\n<p>Both vehicles were traveling at highway speeds, eyewitness Candace Carrado said in an email to <em id=\"emphasis-ad2b399e8c1c67b797761d06bebcfe4e\">The Durango Herald<\/em>. She suspected that the visible remnants of old lane marking paint from before the highway\u2019s recent realignment could have confused the westbound driver.<\/p>\n<p>However DeGuelle said that a medical episode is the suspected causal factor. Impairment by drugs or alcohol are not a suspected.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-8d2eac21209c5209fbdf405b62fa28e9\"><a href=\"mailto:rschafir@durangoherald.com\">rschafir@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collision near Farmington Hill interrupted evening commute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,254,69],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-22908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-road-crash","tag-u-s-highway-160"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22908","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=22908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77897,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22908\/revisions\/77897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22908"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=22908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}