{"id":49510,"date":"2021-01-05T15:36:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T22:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/child-checked-for-injury-after-two-car-crash-near-cortez-walmart\/"},"modified":"2021-01-05T22:36:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T22:36:38","slug":"child-checked-for-injury-after-two-car-crash-near-cortez-walmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/child-checked-for-injury-after-two-car-crash-near-cortez-walmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Child checked for injury after two-car crash near Cortez Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cce2e617-4ce4-4afd-815d-f0066e0769f0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Authorities respond to an accident on the 100 block of South Sligo Street about 1 p.m. Tuesday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Authorities respond to an accident on the 100 block of South Sligo Street about 1 p.m. Tuesday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Anthony Nicotera\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Cortez police officers and firefighters responded to a two-car crash on the 100 block of South Sligo Street about 1 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Cortez Police Department Lt. Andy Brock, a Kia was struck by an individual driving a Lincoln in the back door as it was headed north on Sligo Street. An 11-year-old child was in the back seat of the Kia.<\/p>\n<p>The child was transferred to Southwest Memorial Hospital to be checked for injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A total of four people were in the Kia. The damage to the vehicle was moderate, Brock said.<\/p>\n<p>No court summons or tickets were issued. Police did not suspect that drugs or alcohol were a factor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere aren\u2019t a lot of accidents out there, but it is a really busy intersection,\u201d Brock told <em>The Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Police were in the process of acquiring video from a nearby dental office that might shed light on the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The Cortez Fire Protection District and a Southwest Health System ambulance were among the first responders on the scene.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">This article will be updated as new information becomes available.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>seek video to determine cause of crash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-49510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49510","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=49510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49510"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=49510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}