Christopher M. Cordova, 30, of Cortez, died from injuries sustained in the accident at the corner of Elm and West Second Street at around 3:30 p.m., reported Angela Young with the Cortez Police Department.<\/p>\n
Young said Cordova was riding eastbound \u201cat a fast rate of speed for a bicycle\u201d on West Second Street when he failed to yield to a Toyota Highlander, driven by Kevin Nez, heading southbound on Elm Street.<\/p>\n
\u201cCordova T-boned the vehicle,\u201d Young said.<\/p>\n
Cordova was not wearing a helmet. He was pronounced dead of massive head injuries at Southwest Memorial Hospital, according to the Cortez Police Department and the Montezuma County coroner.<\/p>\n
No citations were issued in the accident, because police determined Cordova failed to yield.<\/p>\n
\u201cCyclists must abide by the same traffic rules as vehicles,\u201d Young said. \u201cMake sure you slow down when riding a bike and look both ways at every intersection.\u201d<\/p>\n
The accident occurred in a residential neighborhood south of Main Street. Intersections in that area are regulated with a combination of stop signs and yield signs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Christopher M. Cordova, 30, of Cortez, died from injuries sustained in the accident at the corner of Elm and West Second Street at around 3:30 p.m., reported Angela Young with the Cortez Police Department. Young said Cordova was riding eastbound \u201cat a fast rate of speed for a bicycle\u201d on West Second Street when he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,254],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-27285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-road-crash"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27285","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=27285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27285"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=27285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}