{"id":44625,"date":"2021-09-21T00:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T06:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pickup-crashes-into-three-vehicles-saturday-on-u-s-highway-160-west-of-durango\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:20:20","slug":"pickup-crashes-into-three-vehicles-saturday-on-u-s-highway-160-west-of-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pickup-crashes-into-three-vehicles-saturday-on-u-s-highway-160-west-of-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickup crashes into three vehicles Saturday on U.S. Highway 160 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=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>U.S. Highway 160 was closed for about 1\u00bd hours Saturday after a pickup truck swerved into oncoming traffic striking three vehicles, according to the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred about 2:20 p.m. near mile marker 79, just west of Lightner Creek Road (County Road 207).<\/p>\n<p>No serious injuries were reported, although the driver of the pickup was taken to Mercy Regional Medical Center in what appeared to be a serious or critical condition, said Cpl. Jonathan Silver with the State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Troopers suspect the driver of the pickup suffered a medical issue, which caused him to abruptly cross into oncoming traffic, Silver said. Troopers are unsure if the driver\u2019s condition after the crash was the result of the accident or the medical issue he suffered leading up to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe passenger compartment (of the pickup) ended up being severely damaged,\u201d Silver said. \u201cI\u2019m sure he sustained injuries, but what they were I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pickup was traveling westbound toward Cortez and the three vehicles were traveling eastbound.<\/p>\n<p>Silver said traffic was backed up about 4 or 5 miles as a result of the highway closure, which lasted from 2:24 to 3:47 p.m. It was also a busy travel time, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash site took longer than normal to clear because of the number of vehicles involved, including one that had a camper shell on it that got knocked off the vehicle, Silver said.<\/p>\n<p>The exact cause of the crash remained under investigation this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just a big disaster, and it took a while to clean up,\u201d Silver said.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-654f6a66efa93a59c1941e34e3b266e1\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>have suffered a medical issue, causing him to swerve into oncoming traffic<\/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":[28,254,69],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-44625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","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\/44625","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=44625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86162,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44625\/revisions\/86162"}],"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=44625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44625"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=44625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}