{"id":38201,"date":"2022-09-27T20:59:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T02:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/no-injuries-in-two-vehicle-crash-on-u-s-491\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:42:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:42:53","slug":"no-injuries-in-two-vehicle-crash-on-u-s-491","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/no-injuries-in-two-vehicle-crash-on-u-s-491\/","title":{"rendered":"No injuries in 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=a724aabc-1ed0-5fee-8dfb-fe16edca91cd&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"386\" alt=\"A two-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 491 was being investigated by the Colorado State Patrol Tuesday afternoon. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A two-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 491 was being investigated by the Colorado State Patrol Tuesday afternoon. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A two-vehicle crash occurred on U.S. Highway 491 at the intersection of County Road L about 2 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>There were no injuries, said Trooper Aaron Loving.<\/p>\n<p>He said the crash occurred when a green Chevy sedan was northbound and the driver attempted to take a left onto Road L. The sedan collided with a southbound white Hyundai.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators were determining whether both vehicles were using the median to take left turns onto Road L. The intersection is offset, Loving said.<\/p>\n<p>Loving said the driver who failed to yield likely would be ticketed.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency medical personnel responded to the crash, but medical transport was refused by all parties.<\/p>\n<p>Air bags deployed in Chevy sedan. Identities of the drivers and passengers were not available.<\/p>\n<p>The Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Cortez Fire Protection District also responded to the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citation pending investigation, Colorado State Patrol says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38202,"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-38201","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\/38201","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=38201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83951,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38201\/revisions\/83951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38201"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=38201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}