{"id":40974,"date":"2022-04-25T16:31:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T22:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/truck-crash-snarls-morning-commute-on-u-s-highway-160-east-of-durango\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:58:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:58:39","slug":"truck-crash-snarls-morning-commute-on-u-s-highway-160-east-of-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/truck-crash-snarls-morning-commute-on-u-s-highway-160-east-of-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck crash snarls morning commute on U.S. Highway 160 east of Durango"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f67630f0-4710-5751-96ce-7c8b333e5838&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1907\" height=\"1213\" alt=\"A box truck rolled off the side of U.S. Highway 160 near milepost 92, just east of Elmore\u2019s Corner on Monday morning. Three tow trucks were needed to remove the vehicle, causing delays for morning commuters. (Courtesy of Carrie Cass)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A box truck rolled off the side of U.S. Highway 160 near milepost 92, just east of Elmore\u2019s Corner on Monday morning. Three tow trucks were needed to remove the vehicle, causing delays for morning commuters. (Courtesy of Carrie Cass)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A box truck drove off the road and tipped onto its side Monday on U.S. Highway 160, causing delays for morning commuters east of Durango.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was heading eastbound about 6:20 a.m. when he \u201cdropped a couple tires off the road\u201d and rolled the vehicle near mile marker 92, just east of Elmore\u2019s Corner, said Capt. John Trentini, with the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Three tow trucks were needed to right the vehicle and remove it from the ditch, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey finally got it rolled over and tried to get it pulled out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, who was uninjured, was cited with careless driving and not wearing a seat belt, Trentini said.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was never formally closed, but eastbound and westbound lanes had to alternate moving past the crash scene.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-2f34bd7a9cf5f3c7523c3e4054b38848\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicle \u2018dropped a couple tires off the road\u2019 and rolled near Elmore\u2019s Corner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,52,254,557,69],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-40974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-law-enforcement","tag-road-crash","tag-traffic","tag-u-s-highway-160"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40974","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=40974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84815,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40974\/revisions\/84815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40974"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=40974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}