{"id":45773,"date":"2021-07-15T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-colorado-highway-145-reopens-after-fatal-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:27:18","slug":"update-colorado-highway-145-reopens-after-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-colorado-highway-145-reopens-after-fatal-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Colorado Highway 145  reopens after 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=90c12453-072d-5399-9597-849b129d4e8f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"469\" alt=\"A crash on Colorado Highway 145 Thursday morning near Stoner killed a motorcycle rider.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A crash on Colorado Highway 145 Thursday morning near Stoner killed a motorcycle rider.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>One person was killed and another injured in a three-vehicle crash Thursday morning on Colorado Highway 145 northeast of Dolores, according to the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The highway has been reopened, according to Colorado Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>The crash about 10:30 a.m. at mile marker 27 involved two motorcyclists and a pickup hauling a trailer, said Master Trooper Gary Cutler.<\/p>\n<p>One of the motorcyclists died as a result of the crash, and the other was injured. The injured man was taken by ambulance to Southwest Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Dolores Volunteer Fire Department responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The EMT crew administered emergency medical care, including CPR, to the victim with severe trauma, said Chief Mike Zion, but the man died from his injuries. A rescue helicopter had been called in to transport the man, but it was called off after he died.<\/p>\n<p>No other information was immediately available about the cause of the crash or identities of those involved.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was closed Thursday morning and reopened at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-53e1efb742fd48172b6d10bc826094b4\">This is a developing story. Updates will be made when more information becomes available.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>near Stoner shut down highway for several hours<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[576,44,28,60,29,254,2053],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-45773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado-department-of-transportation","tag-dolores","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter","tag-road-crash","tag-stoner"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45773","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=45773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86625,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45773\/revisions\/86625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45773"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=45773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}