{"id":48374,"date":"2021-02-25T13:03:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T20:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/woman-found-dead-outside-vehicle-hundreds-of-feet-off-wolf-creek-pass\/"},"modified":"2021-02-25T20:03:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T20:03:36","slug":"woman-found-dead-outside-vehicle-hundreds-of-feet-off-wolf-creek-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/woman-found-dead-outside-vehicle-hundreds-of-feet-off-wolf-creek-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman found dead outside vehicle hundreds of feet off Wolf Creek Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2bb48747-f4fd-4ef6-bdc7-573341b21fac&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1444\" height=\"749\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A woman was found dead Tuesday outside a vehicle located hundreds of feet off Wolf Creek Pass, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n<p>A team of local and state law enforcement, search and rescue officials, and others worked Tuesday to reach the vehicle, which was off U.S. Highway 160 at mile marker 162.<\/p>\n<p>Mile marker 162 is just east of the hairpin turn on the west side of Wolf Creek Pass, where there\u2019s a popular overlook, a site notorious for car crashes.<\/p>\n<p>CBI said the woman was found about 150 feet from the vehicle, a Ford Focus hatchback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe name of the deceased will not be released until positive identification and family notification can be made by the Mineral County Coroner\u2019s Office,\u201d CBI said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators with the Colorado State Patrol are working to determine the cause of the crash. No further information was available Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>located near popular overlook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,4259,254,69,373],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter","tag-newsletter-sign-up","tag-road-crash","tag-u-s-highway-160","tag-wolf-creek-pass"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48374","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=48374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48374"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}