{"id":51554,"date":"2020-09-16T23:25:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T05:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pedestrian-killed-by-vehicle-south-of-cortez\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:56:27","slug":"pedestrian-killed-by-vehicle-south-of-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pedestrian-killed-by-vehicle-south-of-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed by vehicle south of Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b583db52-3b70-42e4-8ab5-db9b98d7cbc3&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 pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle Tuesday evening on U.S. Highway 160\/491 just south of Cortez, according to the Montezuma County coroner.<\/p>\n<p>Coroner George Deavers said a 19-year-old man died from multiple blunt force trauma. His name was not available Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>He was hit by one or two vehicles in the southbound lane about 9 p.m., Deavers said. A pickup truck and a semitrailer involved stopped and waited for law enforcement to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>The fatality occurred near Chronic Therapy along a stretch of road with no street lights. The speed limit is 55 mph where the fatality occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The man was not in a crosswalk, Deavers said. An autopsy was performed Wednesday and a toxicology report is pending.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. 160\/491 was closed in both directions for at least two hours while the scene was investigated, Deavers said. It reopened about 11 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in southbound lane on U.S. 160\/491<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,255,13,28,29,254],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-death-and-dying","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-road-crash"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51554","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=51554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87970,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51554\/revisions\/87970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51554"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}