{"id":46999,"date":"2021-05-05T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wrong-way-driver-is-killed-in-freeway-crash-in-albuquerque\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:36:07","slug":"wrong-way-driver-is-killed-in-freeway-crash-in-albuquerque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wrong-way-driver-is-killed-in-freeway-crash-in-albuquerque\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong-way driver is killed in freeway crash in Albuquerque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) \u2014 A driver allegedly going the wrong way on Interstate 40 was killed Sunday after crashing into the back of a semi-truck, Albuquerque police said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred early Sunday and closed part of the freeway for hours.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the wrong way driver was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The name, age and hometown of the driver haven\u2019t been released yet.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second fatal crash on an interstate in the Albuquerque area involving a wrong-way driver in about 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Bernalillo County Sheriff\u2019s officials said an off-duty officer with the Cuba Police Department allegedly caused a head-on crash around 2 a.m. Saturday that left two people dead and another person hospitalized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) \u2014 A driver allegedly going the wrong way on Interstate 40 was killed Sunday after crashing into the back of a semi-truck, Albuquerque police said. The crash occurred early Sunday and closed part of the freeway for hours. Police said the wrong way driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The name, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[815],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-46999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-associated-press-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46999","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=46999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87092,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46999\/revisions\/87092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46999"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=46999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}