{"id":39661,"date":"2022-07-04T23:02:15","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T05:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/collision-on-colorado-highway-145-causes-injuries\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:50:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:50:52","slug":"collision-on-colorado-highway-145-causes-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/collision-on-colorado-highway-145-causes-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Collision on Colorado Highway 145 causes injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=128787ad-3319-5157-b8e5-3ba8545f7917&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Blotter lights\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Blotter lights<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>A two-vehicle crash Saturday on Colorado Highway 145 north of Cortez injured three  people, according to the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred at the intersection of County Road M about 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Trooper Josh Lewis said a 2013 Lexus that was driving west on Road M entered the intersection and failed to yield to a 2005 Toyota SUV traveling north on the highway.<\/p>\n<p>The Lexus driver, Lloyd Hunt, was cited for careless driving, Lewis said.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt was taken to Southwest Memorial Hospital with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the 2005 Toyota SUV was taken to Southwest Memorial with moderate injuries. She was cited for not wearing a seat belt, Lewis said.<\/p>\n<p>Two boys were in the Toyota, and one suffered minor injuries, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The highway, temporarily limited to alternating traffic because of the collision, was fully reopened by 5:11 p.m., according to a Nixle message from the Montezuma County Emergency Alert system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for careless driving, taken to hospital with serious injuries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16302,"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-39661","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\/39661","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=39661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84400,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39661\/revisions\/84400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39661"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=39661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}