{"id":64103,"date":"2019-06-08T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/three-seriously-injured-in-head-on-crash-east-of-bayfield\/"},"modified":"2019-06-08T23:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T23:20:00","slug":"three-seriously-injured-in-head-on-crash-east-of-bayfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/three-seriously-injured-in-head-on-crash-east-of-bayfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Three seriously injured in head-on crash east of Bayfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=bfd57e94-01ad-4a5c-b1fe-4d1d2ef8c19b&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>Three people suffered serious injuries in a head-on crash Friday afternoon on U.S. Highway 160, east of Bayfield.<\/p>\n<p>Mancos resident Jeromy Cooper, 46, was driving a 1986 white Ford F-250 pickup westbound in the eastbound lane when he hit a 2014 blue Toyota Prius head-on, said Capt. Adrian Driscoll with the Colorado State Patrol. The crash occurred about 1 mile west of the Piedra River.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not believe speed was a factor, but we are looking at some kind of impairment and charges are pending against Cooper,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement was investigating what substance caused Cooper\u2019s impairment.<\/p>\n<p>Cooper injured both Bayfield residents in the Prius. Gail Grossman, 75, was driving the Prius; her husband, Richard Grossman, 75, was in the passenger seat, Driscoll said.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Grossman is a well-known doctor in Southwest Colorado for his work as an OB\/GYN and his work with Planned Parenthood. He has since retired. He also writes the \u201cPopulation Matters\u201d column for <em>The Durango Herald<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone involved in the crash was taken to Mercy Regional Medical Center for treatment, Driscoll said. The Grossmans were wearing seat belts; Cooper was not wearing a seat belt, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to obtain patient conditions on all three crash victims were unsuccessful Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone involved is expected to recover, Driscoll said.<\/p>\n<p>Both vehicles had to be towed from the scene, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash closed the eastbound lane of Highway 160 for about three hours.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mshinn@durangoherald.com\">mshinn@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>may face charges; Bayfield doctor, wife also injured<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[701,28,69],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-64103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-disasters-and-crashes","tag-headlines","tag-u-s-highway-160"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64103","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=64103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64103"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=64103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}