{"id":51584,"date":"2020-09-14T09:16:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T15:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/red-mountain-pass-fully-reopens-after-monday-morning-crash\/"},"modified":"2020-09-14T15:16:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T15:16:17","slug":"red-mountain-pass-fully-reopens-after-monday-morning-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/red-mountain-pass-fully-reopens-after-monday-morning-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Mountain Pass fully reopens after Monday morning crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=8983f56a-80e7-4776-913d-63e123d8101a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"A semitrailer truck carrying concrete rolled over on U.S. Highway 550, south of Ouray, on Monday morning, blocking both lanes of the highway, which was fully reopened around 11:30 a.m.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A semitrailer truck carrying concrete rolled over on U.S. Highway 550, south of Ouray, on Monday morning, blocking both lanes of the highway, which was fully reopened around 11:30 a.m.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Colorado Department of Transportation<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Red Mountain Pass was closed or partially blocked for about three hours Monday for a rollover truck crash north of the summit.<\/p>\n<p>The closure occurred about 8:25 a.m. near mile marker 89 on U.S. Highway 550, just north of an area known as Ironton near a section of highway that features several hairpin switchbacks.<\/p>\n<p>An initial report showed a semitrailer truck carrying concrete tipped over, blocking portions of the road.<\/p>\n<p>Around 9:30 a.m., one lane was reopened to alternating traffic, resulting in about 30-minute delays, as hazmat crews cleared the area.<\/p>\n<p>CDOT spokeswoman Lisa Schwantes said the highway was fully reopened as of 11:30 a.m. She did not have further details about the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado State Patrol Trooper Josh Lewis said the driver, a 37-year-old man, sustained minor injuries. Lewis did not have details on why the crash occurred, but said alcohol and drugs are not suspected.<\/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>hauling concrete tipped over on U.S. Highway 550<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,1489,87,254,327,1384],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-ouray","tag-red-mountain-pass","tag-road-crash","tag-silverton","tag-u-s-highway-550"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51584","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=51584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51584"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}