{"id":44204,"date":"2021-10-15T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/u-s-highway-550-southbound-lane-reopens-after-three-vehicle-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:17:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:17:58","slug":"u-s-highway-550-southbound-lane-reopens-after-three-vehicle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/u-s-highway-550-southbound-lane-reopens-after-three-vehicle-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Highway 550 southbound lane reopens after three-vehicle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<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><p>Emergency workers responded to a three-vehicle crash Friday during the evening rush hour on U.S. Highway 550 south of Durango.<\/p>\n<p>The southbound lane of traffic was closed shortly before 5 p.m. and didn\u2019t reopen until about 6:15 p.m. near Bondad Hill, in the the 5800 block of Highway 550, said Chris Burke, spokesman for the La Plata County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>One male patient was taken to a hospital, but Burke did not immediately have additional information about injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff\u2019s deputies were assisting with traffic control, but the crash scene was expected to be turned over to the Colorado State Patrol for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-f7873b5893844c0752fba7841d4f3306\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accident occurred shortly before 5 p.m. Friday<\/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":[28,254,1384],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-44204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-road-crash","tag-u-s-highway-550"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44204","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=44204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86004,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44204\/revisions\/86004"}],"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=44204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44204"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=44204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}