{"id":32136,"date":"2023-08-22T22:34:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T04:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-collision-kills-one-injures-two-on-u-s-160-east-of-mancos-highway-reopens\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:53:26","slug":"update-collision-kills-one-injures-two-on-u-s-160-east-of-mancos-highway-reopens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-collision-kills-one-injures-two-on-u-s-160-east-of-mancos-highway-reopens\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Collision kills one, injures two on U.S. 160 east of Mancos; highway reopens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d39d6e94-adfa-57fc-9573-e9e58e9a64e1&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1108\" height=\"746\" alt=\"U.S. Highway 160, looking west from Mancos Hill, about 5 miles east of Mancos. (Colorado Department of Transportation camera)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">U.S. Highway 160, looking west from Mancos Hill, about 5 miles east of Mancos. (Colorado Department of Transportation camera)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A collision Tuesday afternoon on U.S. Highway 160, about 4 miles east of Mancos, killed a driver of a Kia automobile and injured two travelers in a motor home, according to the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The highway full reopened about 8 p.m., according to a message alert from the Montezuma County Emergency Alert System.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Kia died at the scene, said Capt. John Trentini of the Colorado State Patrol. The two travelers in the motor home were taken to a hospital, one by ambulance and the other by AirCare helicopter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a fatal crash that we expect to be a head-on,\u201d said Trentini said. \u201cWe\u2019re still under investigation, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The eastbound and westbound lanes of the highway were quickly shut down after the 1:49 p.m. crash at Road J.8. At 2:57 p.m., traffic was at a standstill for 2 miles east of Mancos. By 3:15 p.m., traffic was moving in alternating lanes, said Trentini.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that the driver of the Kia was not wearing a seat belt.<\/p>\n<p>Trentini advised travelers to take detours if heading toward Durango or Cortez because he expected the investigation to continue for a few more hours.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado State Patrol does not know who was at fault but they suspect alcohol was involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic backed up for miles; drivers urged to take detours<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32137,"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-32136","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\/32136","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=32136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81688,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32136\/revisions\/81688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32136"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=32136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}