{"id":32796,"date":"2023-07-19T18:53:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T00:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/jeep-driver-hits-trash-truck-head-on-south-of-durango\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:03:11","slug":"jeep-driver-hits-trash-truck-head-on-south-of-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/jeep-driver-hits-trash-truck-head-on-south-of-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeep driver hits trash truck head-on 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=08d43f55-e3b7-5401-8f17-ab6c8337e7b2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"960\" height=\"679\" alt=\"A Jeep Cherokee hit a trash truck head-on Wednesday morning on U.S. Highway 550 near the top of Farmington Hill, south of Durango. The driver of the Jeep escaped with non-life-threatening injuries. (Courtesy of Hailey Walton)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A Jeep Cherokee hit a trash truck head-on Wednesday morning on U.S. Highway 550 near the top of Farmington Hill, south of Durango. The driver of the Jeep escaped with non-life-threatening injuries. (Courtesy of Hailey Walton)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The driver of a Jeep Cherokee avoided serious bodily injury Wednesday after colliding with a garbage truck on U.S. Highway 550 near the top of Farmington Hill south of Durango.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was reported at 7:05 a.m. in a construction zone near mile marker 16.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Jeep was traveling north toward Durango when it crossed the centerline and collided with the trash truck, said Capt. John Trentini, with the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The driver told law enforcement he was passing on a double-yellow line and didn\u2019t see the oncoming garbage truck, Trentini said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe speed was involved,\u201d Trentini said.<\/p>\n<p>Neither drugs nor alcohol are suspected.<\/p>\n<p>The Jeep driver was taken to Mercy Hospital with minor injuries, including a large cut on his head and other non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic was rerouted around the crash scene until about 11 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Jeep driver was cited, but the specific citations were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-cee633ca439deb666e4ff1cdd129dee3\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Highway 550 traffic detoured for four hours<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,254,1384],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-32796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-road-crash","tag-u-s-highway-550"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32796","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=32796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81932,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32796\/revisions\/81932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32796"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=32796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}