{"id":45404,"date":"2021-08-05T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/farmington-police-speed-a-factor-in-fatal-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:24:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:24:51","slug":"farmington-police-speed-a-factor-in-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/farmington-police-speed-a-factor-in-fatal-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmington police: Speed a factor in fatal 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>FARMINGTON \u2013 The Farmington Police Department is investigating a fatal car crash that occurred last week.<\/p>\n<p>Farmington police responded to the rollover crash at 9:21 a.m. July 26 at the intersection of Murray Drive and Broadway Avenue, according to a news release from the police department.<\/p>\n<p>According to the release, the car left the road near the right-turn lane from Broadway to Murray, traveling across a dirt lot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vehicle became airborne over Murray and then rolled through a business parking lot,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n<p>The front-seat passenger, identified as Roger Olguin Sr., 65, was ejected from the car and pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, identified as Desiree Olguin, 39, and daughter of Roger, was also ejected from the car. She was taken to San Juan Regional Medical Center and then to the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque where she was treated and eventually released.<\/p>\n<p>In an email Thursday to <em id=\"emphasis-e5c75cb0028e3286f58cf47326951a74\">The Durango Herald<\/em>, a police department spokeswoman said a search warrant was issued to inspect the car and speed was confirmed to be a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Farmington Police Department encourages all drivers in the area to slow down and take their time,\u201d the release said. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen a recent increase in serious traffic collisions. Please travel the roadways safely and be aware of posted speed limits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-8712e39fc40234eb24367054d06f0742\"><a href=\"mailto:mmitchell@durangoherald.com\">mmitchell@durangoherald.com<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to Albuquerque hospital; woman\u2019s father died at the scene<\/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":[799,28,254,443],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-45404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-farmington","tag-headlines","tag-road-crash","tag-san-juan-county-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45404","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=45404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86482,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45404\/revisions\/86482"}],"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=45404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45404"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=45404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}