{"id":31037,"date":"2023-10-22T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/aztec-man-2-year-old-die-in-crash-on-u-s-highway-491\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:33:21","slug":"aztec-man-2-year-old-die-in-crash-on-u-s-highway-491","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/aztec-man-2-year-old-die-in-crash-on-u-s-highway-491\/","title":{"rendered":"Aztec man, 2-year-old die in crash on U.S. Highway 491"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=128787ad-3319-5157-b8e5-3ba8545f7917&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Blotter lights\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Blotter lights<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An Aztec man and his 2-year-old passenger died in a Oct. 19 crash on Highway 491 near mile marker 34.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico State Police say Charles Lane, 64, was driving a white, Dodge pickup northbound on U.S. Highway 491 near Buffalo Springs in McKinley County when his vehicle left the roadway and \u201ccrashed into the rear\u201d of a commercial vehicle that was parked on the shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>The commercial vehicle was having mechanical issues, state police said.<\/p>\n<p>The 2-year-old passenger in Lane\u2019s truck died at the scene, state police said.<\/p>\n<p>Lane was taken to a hospital in Albuquerque, where he died, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Two occupants in the commercial vehicle were not injured, state police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlcohol does not appear to be a factor,\u201d a news release said. The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blotter lightscca An Aztec man and his 2-year-old passenger died in a Oct. 19 crash on Highway 491 near mile marker 34. New Mexico State Police say Charles Lane, 64, was driving a white, Dodge pickup northbound on U.S. Highway 491 near Buffalo Springs in McKinley County when his vehicle left the roadway and \u201ccrashed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16302,"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-31037","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\/31037","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=31037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81294,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31037\/revisions\/81294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31037"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=31037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}