{"id":34248,"date":"2023-05-02T09:20:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T15:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/one-person-dies-in-collision-east-of-farmington\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:17:15","slug":"one-person-dies-in-collision-east-of-farmington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/one-person-dies-in-collision-east-of-farmington\/","title":{"rendered":"One person dies in collision east of Farmington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9a3b432e-97e5-5864-ab72-f3235fa0c118&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1115\" alt=\"One fatality was confirmed in the early-morning crash on Crouch Mesa Road in Farmington. (David Edward Albright\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">One fatality was confirmed in the early-morning crash on Crouch Mesa Road in Farmington. (David Edward Albright\/Durango Herald)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>One fatality has been confirmed in an early morning crash in the area of Crouch Mesa Road and County Road 5591, near Dino\u2019s Mart, according to San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s spokeswoman Kristi Hughes.<\/p>\n<p>Hughes confirmed that the crash was reported at 5:47 a.m. east of Farmington and that it involved two vehicles. The individual who died was taken to the hospital, but Hughes did not have information as of yet to whether the person died at the scene or after being transported. The name of the deceased will not be released until next of kin has been notified.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic is expected to remain restricted until about 10 a.m. while the Sheriff\u2019s Office Reconstruction Team investigates the crash. Drivers are asked to seek an alternate route.<\/p>\n<p>Early reports from witnesses claim the vehicles involved were a maroon Chevy Cobalt and a gray or blue Nissan Rogue.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"naviga-map\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=36.735549088855%2C-108.08164501402&amp;z=15&amp;output=embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Map\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=40fc0f5b-ce41-56ce-8fe5-451fa044eb11&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1536\" height=\"841\" alt=\"An early morning crash on Crouch Mesa Road Tuesday restricted traffic for several hours. (Courtesy Valene Border)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">An early morning crash on Crouch Mesa Road Tuesday restricted traffic for several hours. (Courtesy Valene Border)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traffic on Crouch Mesa Road is restricted until about 10 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1338,28,2656,557],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-34248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-flora-vista","tag-headlines","tag-san-juan-county-sheriffs-office-new-mexico","tag-traffic"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34248","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=34248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82532,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34248\/revisions\/82532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34248"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=34248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}