{"id":51945,"date":"2020-08-25T22:28:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T04:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/21-year-old-durango-woman-killed-in-u-s-highway-550-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:58:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:58:04","slug":"21-year-old-durango-woman-killed-in-u-s-highway-550-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/21-year-old-durango-woman-killed-in-u-s-highway-550-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"21-year-old Durango woman killed in U.S. Highway 550 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=3c316622-0102-41ef-b5b0-5f3c21c9c661&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 21-year-old woman from Durango was killed about 10:30 p.m. Friday when her vehicle went off the road after attempting a pass in traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado State Patrol Capt. Adrian Driscoll said Elizabeth Bennett\u2019s 2020 Honda Civic went off U.S. Highway 550 at milepost 37, just south of Tamarron.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett, who was southbound, appeared to have re-entered southbound traffic after attempting to pass vehicles and went off the right side of the road and collided with an embankment.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett was not ejected from the vehicle, although she was not wearing a seat belt, Driscoll said.<\/p>\n<p>Alcohol is suspected to have played a contributing factor in the crash, Driscoll said. He said excessive speed did not appear to be a factor.<\/p>\n<p>La Plata County Coroner Jann Smith said an autopsy determined Bennett\u2019s cause of death to be blunt force trauma. Toxicology results are expected to be completed in four weeks, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Bennett was living in Durango, and her vehicle was registered in Arizona, Driscoll said.<\/p>\n<p>Driscoll had no other details about the crash.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:parmijo@durangoherald.com\">parmijo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vehicle went off road around 10:30 p.m. Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,254,1384],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-road-crash","tag-u-s-highway-550"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51945","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=51945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88021,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51945\/revisions\/88021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51945"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}