{"id":48160,"date":"2021-03-05T18:07:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T01:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/trial-delayed-for-man-accused-of-killing-cyclist-ben-sonntag\/"},"modified":"2021-03-06T01:07:11","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T01:07:11","slug":"trial-delayed-for-man-accused-of-killing-cyclist-ben-sonntag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/trial-delayed-for-man-accused-of-killing-cyclist-ben-sonntag\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial delayed for man accused of killing cyclist Ben Sonntag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5daee5cc-1c4a-45a4-9471-d40f1950b0f8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Schneider\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Schneider<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The trial for a La Plata County man accused of striking and killing professional cyclist Benjamin Sonntag was delayed until July 19 because of concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Cordell Schneider, who was 19 at the time, was supposed to start a trial March 22.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Schneider was driving a pickup truck on County Road 105 in western La Plata County around noon March 4, 2020, when he struck and killed Sonntag, who was riding his bike at the time.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the crash found Schneider was traveling an estimated 65 mph in a 35 mph zone when he lost control of the truck, struck Sonntag and then went down a steep embankment before hitting a tree and coming to rest.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider was charged with vehicular homicide, a Class 4 felony, and reckless driving.<\/p>\n<p>On July 17, Schneider pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cordell Schneider was supposed to start trial later this month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1078,133,168,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-6th-judicial-district","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48160","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=48160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48160"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}