{"id":43589,"date":"2021-11-24T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/four-vehicle-crash-with-serious-injuries-snarls-morning-commute-west-of-durango\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:14:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:14:32","slug":"four-vehicle-crash-with-serious-injuries-snarls-morning-commute-west-of-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/four-vehicle-crash-with-serious-injuries-snarls-morning-commute-west-of-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"Four-vehicle crash with serious injuries snarls morning commute west 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=3b90fd24-313b-5db6-9c58-9d91bd63f051&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Four vehicles were involved in a crash about 8 a.m. Wednesday on U.S. Highway 160 west of Durango. The crash occurred near Durango West 1 subdivision, on Hesperus Hill. The Colorado State Patrol reported serious injuries. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Four vehicles were involved in a crash about 8 a.m. Wednesday on U.S. Highway 160 west of Durango. The crash occurred near Durango West 1 subdivision, on Hesperus Hill. The Colorado State Patrol reported serious injuries. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Colorado State Patrol responded to a crash involving serious injuries Wednesday morning on U.S. Highway 160 west of Durango.<\/p>\n<p>The crash involved four vehicles, including a semitrailer, said Cpl. Jonathan Silver, with the State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred about 8 a.m. at mile post 75.1, just west of Durango West I subdivision, on Hesperus Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers can expect intermittent traffic flow and road closures through the area until 12:30 or 1:30 p.m., Silver said. Conditions were foggy and roads were wet.<\/p>\n<p>The State Patrol was not immediately able to say whether the crash involved any fatalities, but he confirmed there were serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>He warned drivers to slow down as conditions turn icy heading into the winter months.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-64e18a12ae491f7c916e62bd558ad9e2\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accident involves a semitrailer; cleanup expected to take several hours<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[254,69],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-43589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-road-crash","tag-u-s-highway-160"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43589","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=43589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85759,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43589\/revisions\/85759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43589"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=43589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}