{"id":51800,"date":"2020-09-04T09:15:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T15:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/13-year-old-boy-crashes-pickup-truck-requires-airlift-to-mercy\/"},"modified":"2020-09-04T15:15:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T15:15:15","slug":"13-year-old-boy-crashes-pickup-truck-requires-airlift-to-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/13-year-old-boy-crashes-pickup-truck-requires-airlift-to-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"13-year-old boy crashes pickup truck, requires airlift to Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=2b4abc94-7144-4b25-87f8-827b0f15c70c&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 13-year-old boy required an emergency airlift to Mercy Regional Medical Center after crashing a pickup truck near Hesperus.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado State Patrol Capt. Adrian Driscoll said authorities received a report of the crash around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday near the 22000 block of Colorado Highway 140.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was shut down around 9:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports show the 13-year-old boy was driving a 2001 Ford flatbed pickup alone when he drove off the highway and rolled over. The vehicle was headed east, Driscoll said, and went off the right side of the road.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities found the juvenile trapped underneath the vehicle. A Flight For Life helicopter was called to transport him to Mercy, Driscoll said. The boy was transferred to a children\u2019s hospital in Colorado Springs on Thursday morning with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Because the 13-year-old is a juvenile, Driscoll declined to release his name, but said he is from New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined the Ford pickup truck was stolen in Farmington.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce our investigation is complete, we\u2019ll consult with the (district attorney) on charges,\u201d Driscoll said.<\/p>\n<p>Driscoll did not disclose further details about the incident, citing an open investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was reopened around 10:35 p.m. Wednesday.<\/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>Vehicle rolls off Colorado Highway 140 on Wednesday night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1152,28,866,68,29,254],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-emergency-incident","tag-headlines","tag-hesperus","tag-mercy-regional-medical-center","tag-newsletter","tag-road-crash"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51800","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=51800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51800"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}