{"id":40110,"date":"2022-06-10T21:44:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T03:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-vehicle-crash-injures-cortez-woman\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:53:33","slug":"two-vehicle-crash-injures-cortez-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-vehicle-crash-injures-cortez-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-vehicle crash injures Cortez woman"},"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 causing injuries occurred on U.S. Highway 491 and County Road L Thursday about 6:30 p.m. the Colorado State Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p>A woman driving a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck eastbound on Road L failed to yield to southbound traffic on the highway and collided with a Chrysler Seabring , said Sgt. Nathan Lyons of the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The pickup then flipped onto its side and slid. The impact injured the arm of the pickup driver, identified as Donna Dennison of Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>Dennison was cited for careless driving causing injury, he said.<\/p>\n<p>She was taken to Southwest Memorial Hospital. One of the three occupants of the Chrysler also was injured and taken to Southwest Memorial, said Master Trooper Gary Cutler.<\/p>\n<p>Crews extricated Dennison from the truck by peeling back the roof of the truck, said Cortez Fire Protection District Chief Jay Balfour.<\/p>\n<p>The crash blocked and closed a portion of the highway, Lyons said. Southbound traffic was diverted onto County Roads L and M.<\/p>\n<p>The intersection is known to be dangerous and the scene of prior collisions, Lyons said. Warning signs on the highway alert traffic to the intersection.<\/p>\n<p>The Cortez Fire Protection District, Lewis-Arriola Fire District, Colorado State Patrol, Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office, and Southwest Health System ambulance responded to the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collision happened at Road L and U.S. Highway 491<\/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-40110","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\/40110","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=40110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84547,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40110\/revisions\/84547"}],"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=40110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40110"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=40110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}