{"id":49046,"date":"2021-01-25T14:20:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T21:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/driver-identified-in-last-weekaes-fatal-crash-on-u-s-highway-550\/"},"modified":"2021-01-25T21:20:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T21:20:20","slug":"driver-identified-in-last-weekaes-fatal-crash-on-u-s-highway-550","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/driver-identified-in-last-weekaes-fatal-crash-on-u-s-highway-550\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver identified in last week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fatal crash on U.S. Highway 550"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9d6f9d16-86b0-4c86-8075-7542385fe336&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"831\" height=\"467\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A 66-year-old man from Grand Junction died in a three-vehicle crash Friday night that closed the mountain passes between Durango and Silverton for about five hours.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado State Patrol Capt. Adrian Driscoll said a 1994 Isuzu Trooper headed south on U.S. Highway 550 lost control about 5:30 p.m. near milepost 61, just before the bend in the road at Lime Creek, and went into oncoming traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The Isuzu struck a 2020 Ram truck pulling a trailer that was headed north, Driscoll said. The Ram then went on to strike a 2011 Nissan Titan that was headed south, just behind the Isuzu.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Isuzu, identified as Roy Nicodemus, died in the crash. Driscoll said there were no other significant injuries in the crash. Everyone was wearing a seat belt, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Driscoll said Highway 550 in that area was experiencing bad driving conditions because of a winter storm that caused whiteout conditions, the likely cause of the Isuzu losing control.<\/p>\n<p>Driscoll said the highway was reopened around 10:30 p.m.<\/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>whiteout conditions played role in three-vehicle collision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2235,28,2590,29,254,1164,1384],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coal-bank-pass","tag-headlines","tag-molas-pass","tag-newsletter","tag-road-crash","tag-snow","tag-u-s-highway-550"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49046","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=49046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49046"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}