{"id":52253,"date":"2020-08-08T00:35:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T06:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/vehicle-crashes-down-embankment-at-slick-rock\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:59:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:59:02","slug":"vehicle-crashes-down-embankment-at-slick-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/vehicle-crashes-down-embankment-at-slick-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle crashes down embankment at Slick Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:7d71e975-110c-49a7-b736-5c1c8572c7b3 --><\/p>\n<p>A pickup truck drove off Colorado Highway 141 at Slick Rock Thursday afternoon and crashed down a steep embankment, according to the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>One person required a rope rescue and was airlifted by Careflight about 3:40 p.m., reports the San Miguel County Sheriff\u2019s Office. The extent of the injuries was not available.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, a 26-year-old male, was issued a citation, said Trooper Gary Cutler. The specific citation was not available.<\/p>\n<p>A passerby called 911 after spotting an individual waving his arms from the top of the pickup truck down the embankment. The vehicle landed near the Dolores River.<\/p>\n<p>The road was closed temporarily during the rescue and while a tow truck pulled the vehicle from the canyon.<\/p>\n<p>A dog in the truck survived was taken to a veterinarian to be checked out, Cutler said.<\/p>\n<p>Dolores County Sheriff\u2019s deputies, Colorado State Patrol, Egnar Fire Department and San Miguel Sheriff deputies responded to the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passerby spots victim, truck in Dolores Canyon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,837,341,28,254,1561],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-52253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-dolores-county","tag-dolores-river","tag-headlines","tag-road-crash","tag-san-miguel-county"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52253","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=52253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88063,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52253\/revisions\/88063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52253"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=52253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}