{"id":52994,"date":"2020-06-30T23:38:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T05:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/collision-on-u-s-491-closes-highway\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:02:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:02:35","slug":"collision-on-u-s-491-closes-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/collision-on-u-s-491-closes-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Collision on U.S. 491 closes highway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c2b60603-181f-4cd5-a05e-4a91f05eba58&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"A crash involving a semitrailer and pickup truck injured a man and closed U.S. Highway 491, according to the Colorado State Patrol.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A crash involving a semitrailer and pickup truck injured a man and closed U.S. Highway 491, according to the Colorado State Patrol.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Katti Gardner<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A collision between a pickup truck and a semitrailer on U.S. Highway 491 Tuesday hospitalized one man and closed the highway about 2 miles north of Pleasant View.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was reported at 1:19 p.m. at mile marker 48 near the intersection of County Road EE, said Colorado State Trooper Josh Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>The collision blocked the road and closed the highway in both directions for more than an hour, he said. A detour was established on a nearby county road. The highway reopened at 2:56 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A 36-year-old, male driver of a 2016 Kensworth semitrailer suffered minor to moderate injuries and was taken to the hospital, Lewis said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of 1993 Toyota pickup suffered minor injuries and was not hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash is under investigation, Lewis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pickup causes injuries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,28,29,254],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-52994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","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\/52994","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=52994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88190,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52994\/revisions\/88190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52994"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=52994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}