{"id":64548,"date":"2019-10-31T18:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T00:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/is-durango-really-the-second-best-driving-city-in-colorado\/"},"modified":"2019-11-01T00:42:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T00:42:59","slug":"is-durango-really-the-second-best-driving-city-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/is-durango-really-the-second-best-driving-city-in-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Durango really the second-best driving city in Colorado?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=856328ed-fe0a-4c0e-81f6-fffcff75e183&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1015\" alt=\"Durango was ranked as the second-best driving city in Colorado, though the Durango Police Department may disagree.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Durango was ranked as the second-best driving city in Colorado, though the Durango Police Department may disagree.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Every year, Quote Wizard, a website that compares car insurance costs, puts together <a href=\"https:\/\/quotewizard.com\/news\/posts\/colorado-driver-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national rankings for the best and worst driving states and cities in the U.S.<\/a> The company\u2019s findings were released last week.<\/p>\n<p>The list, Quote Wizard says, is based on insurance quotes, as well as information from the Federal Highway Administration and National Association of Insurance Commissioners, which include the number of accidents, speeding tickets, DUIs and moving citations.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado, as a whole, received a \u201cC minus\u201d rating and is listed as the 26th worst state to drive in across the country. Denver ranked the eighth worst-driving city in the country, and Colorado Springs was ranked as the 16th.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt comes as no surprise that when you look into the worst-driving cities in Colorado, you\u2019ll find the suburb cities of Denver and Colorado Springs,\u201d the report read.<\/p>\n<p>Big cities aside, coming in as the second-best place to drive in Colorado was Durango.<\/p>\n<p>The news is a bit surprising seeing as the Durango Police Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DurangoPolice\/posts\/2374750076118879?__tn__=K-R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted to its Facebook page Wednesday<\/a> about the high number of car crashes in town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems that we all suck at driving around and not running into one another or stationary objects,\u201d Durango police\u2019s post said. \u201cBefore you think we are casting stones, this would include cops from time to time!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Durango police said there have been 520 crashes so far in 2019, and nearly 50 in October alone. There were also 17 hit-and-runs in October, police reported.<\/p>\n<p>Pueblo was identified as the best-driving city in the state.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_tagline\">Herald Staff<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durango was ranked as the second-best driving city in Colorado, though the Durango Police Department may disagree.Durango Herald file Every year, Quote Wizard, a website that compares car insurance costs, puts together national rankings for the best and worst driving states and cities in the U.S. The company\u2019s findings were released last week. The list, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4502],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-64548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-talk-about-town"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64548","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=64548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64548"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=64548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}