{"id":46402,"date":"2021-06-07T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/driver-leaves-scene-of-crash-on-ash-street-in-cortez\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:31:17","slug":"driver-leaves-scene-of-crash-on-ash-street-in-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/driver-leaves-scene-of-crash-on-ash-street-in-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver leaves scene of crash on Ash Street in Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7c6bf59a-b466-52fc-a851-0a2d7c6514ed&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"364\" alt=\"A two-car crash Monday in Cortez sent the driver of a white sedan to the hospital. The driver of the green van allegedly fled the scene in another vehicle that pulled up, according to the Cortez Police Department. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A two-car crash Monday in Cortez sent the driver of a white sedan to the hospital. The driver of the green van allegedly fled the scene in another vehicle that pulled up, according to the Cortez Police Department. (Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A two-car crash Monday afternoon in Cortez sent one driver to the hospital, and the other driver left the scene, according to the Cortez Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened about 12:30 p.m. and involved a green minivan and a white sedan at the intersection of South Ash Street and East Third Street.<\/p>\n<p>A male driver of the white sedan was pinned in his car and required extrication, said Cortez Patrol Lt. Rex Brinkerhoff.<\/p>\n<p>The man was transported to Southwest Memorial Hospital, was conscious and able to speak.<\/p>\n<p>Brinkerhoff said witnesses reported that the female driver of the green van got into a vehicle that had pulled up and left the scene. Police were looking for the vehicle, described as a green Chevy Trailblazer SUV.<\/p>\n<p>Airbags in both vehicles deployed. The green van had front-end damage, and the sedan had damage to the driver\u2019s side. A street sign was knocked over from the crash, and the collision pushed the sedan onto the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>The intersection has a stop sign for drivers on South Ash Street. The crash is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A neighbor said she heard a loud bang and said drivers often run the stop sign at that location.<\/p>\n<p>Cortez Fire Protection District crews and a Southwest Health System ambulance also responded to the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>other vehicle is taken to Southwest Memorial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,168,701,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-46402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-crime","tag-disasters-and-crashes","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46402","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=46402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86863,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46402\/revisions\/86863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46402"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=46402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}