{"id":47360,"date":"2021-04-16T14:37:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T20:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pedestrian-hit-by-truck-while-crossing-e-main-street-in-cortez\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:37:53","slug":"pedestrian-hit-by-truck-while-crossing-e-main-street-in-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pedestrian-hit-by-truck-while-crossing-e-main-street-in-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian hit by truck while crossing E. Main Street in Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A pedestrian hit by a truck on E. Main Street on Wednesday in Cortez was taken to Southwest Memorial Hospital and released with minor injuries, according to Cortez Police.<\/span>Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

A man was hit by a truck while crossing E. Main Street this week in Cortez.<\/p>\n

The man was taken to Southwest Memorial Hospital and released with minor injuries, said Assistant Cortez Police Chief Andy Brock.<\/p>\n

The pedestrian was crossing to the north side of Main Street about 4 p.m. Wednesday when he was hit by a southbound truck turning left from N. Harrison Street to go east on E. Main Street.<\/p>\n

No citations were issued at the scene, Brock said, and the incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n

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A crosswalk signal on Main Street in Cortez indicates that left-turning traffic is allowed while the walk signal is on for pedestrians, but the crosswalk must be clear. Another sign instructs turning vehicles to yield to pedestrians.<\/span>Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A crosswalk signal on E. Main Street in Cortez indicates that left-turning traffic is allowed while the walk signal allows pedestrians to cross. Vehicles turning left on a flashing yellow arrow must yield to oncoming traffic and pedestrians in the crosswalk. Another sign instructs turning vehicles to yield to pedestrians.<\/span>Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

A review of the intersection shows that when the crosswalk signal is not activated, a left-turn signal arrow turns green to allow for turning traffic.<\/p>\n

When the crosswalk signal is activated, it shows the white walking symbol indicating it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s OK for pedestrians to cross; the left-turn signal is initially red.<\/p>\n

Then the left-turn arrow turns to flashing yellow while the crosswalk signal remains white. The flashing yellow turn signal continues while the crosswalk signal countdown is initiated for the pedestrian to cross.<\/p>\n

Vehicles turning left on a flashing yellow must yield to oncoming traffic and pedestrians. A sign on top of the signal instructs drivers to yield to pedestrians.<\/p>\n

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A sign at the intersection of E. Main Street and Harrison Street instructs turning vehicles to yield to pedestrians.<\/span>Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

During a test at 5 p.m. Thursday, when crossing using the walk signal six separate times, one turning vehicle failed to yield to a pedestrian legally crossing in the crosswalk.<\/p>\n

Two pedestrians killed in 2020<\/div>\n

In April and September of 2020, two pedestrians died on U.S. Highway 160-491 in south Cortez after being struck by vehicles. The death in April was a hit-and-run. In the September fatality, the driver stopped and was found not at fault.<\/p>\n

Also in January 2020, a pedestrian was struck and injured at the intersection of Mildred Street and Montezuma Avenue by a hit-and-run driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

to hospital and released; incident remains under investigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,28,29,254,557],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-47360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-road-crash","tag-traffic"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47360","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=47360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87168,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47360\/revisions\/87168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47360"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=47360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}