{"id":25439,"date":"2024-10-07T01:21:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T07:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/one-dead-in-three-vehicle-collision-on-u-s-highway-160-near-hesperus\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:17:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:17:47","slug":"one-dead-in-three-vehicle-collision-on-u-s-highway-160-near-hesperus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/one-dead-in-three-vehicle-collision-on-u-s-highway-160-near-hesperus\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead in three-vehicle collision on U.S. Highway 160 near Hesperus"},"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>A fatal crash on U.S. Highway 160 at milepost 73 near Hesperus closed the highway for seven hours Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado State Patrol spokeswoman Sherri Mendez said the crash, which occurred at 9:17 a.m., was a head-on collision involving a Chevrolet Equinox, a Ford F-350 and a Toyota Tacoma.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Chevrolet Equinox, a 69-year-old woman from Hesperus, died at the scene. La Plata County Coroner Jann Smith identified her as Michelle Hover.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Ford-350, one of three people in the truck, was airlifted to Mercy Hospital with serious injuries. Passengers were taken by ambulance to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Mendez could not provide details about how the crash happened.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"naviga-map\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=37.289662325619%2C-108.03719907141&amp;z=15&amp;output=embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Map\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>The driver of the Toyota Tacoma, a 52-year-old man from Durango, was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic was rerouted to County Road 125, and Highway 160 did not reopen until nearly 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-fbd9598e62c7232d29974c907c82495d\"><a href=\"mailto:tbrown@durangoherald.com\">tbrown@durangoherald.com<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-d14b87d83da5b10a66af057824d099c1\">This story will be updated as more information becomes available. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>closed for more than seven hours during investigation<\/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":[950,28,254,69],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-25439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-durango","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\/25439","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=25439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78936,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25439\/revisions\/78936"}],"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=25439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25439"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=25439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}