{"id":35663,"date":"2023-02-20T17:55:54","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T00:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/emergency-crews-respond-to-two-vehicle-crash-on-u-s-491\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:26:23","slug":"emergency-crews-respond-to-two-vehicle-crash-on-u-s-491","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/emergency-crews-respond-to-two-vehicle-crash-on-u-s-491\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency crews respond to two-vehicle crash on U.S. 491"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=fa9dcf84-ffc8-558f-99fd-f04290efabda&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"667\" alt=\"Colorado State Patrol Trooper James Proctor investigates at crash on U.S. Highway 491 Monday afternoon. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Colorado State Patrol Trooper James Proctor investigates at crash on U.S. Highway 491 Monday afternoon. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A two-vehicle crash around 4 p.m. on U.S. Highway 491 north of Cortez caused significant damage to both vehicles, but there were no injuries, according to the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of a northbound Hyundai Sante Fe was in the middle turn lane and attempted to take a left onto Road K. 7 when it collided with a southbound Chevy truck, said Trooper James Proctor.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Hyundai was cited for careless driving, he said. No drugs or alcohol were involved, Proctor said.<\/p>\n<p>The drivers of both vehicles were wearing seat belts and carried no passengers. The air bag of the Hyundai deployed. The crash occurred at mile marker 28.<\/p>\n<p>Both vehicles had to be towed, and crews cleaned up debris from the crash. Southbound traffic was reduced to one lane for about 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The Cortez Fire Protection District, Montezuma County Sheriff, Southwest Health System ambulance, and state patrol responded to the crash.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cf0e86e0-a5ce-58e7-992a-a46297001da6&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"406\" alt=\"This Chevy pickup was southbound on U.S. highway 491 when it collided with a car turning left. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">This Chevy pickup was southbound on U.S. highway 491 when it collided with a car turning left. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>serious injuries reported; one driver cited for careless driving <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-35663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35663","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=35663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83061,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35663\/revisions\/83061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35663"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=35663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}