{"id":64702,"date":"2019-10-16T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T20:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-injured-in-motorcycle-crash-on-u-s-highway-550-near-new-mexico-line\/"},"modified":"2019-10-16T20:21:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T20:21:34","slug":"two-injured-in-motorcycle-crash-on-u-s-highway-550-near-new-mexico-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-injured-in-motorcycle-crash-on-u-s-highway-550-near-new-mexico-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Two injured in motorcycle crash on U.S. Highway 550 near New Mexico line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9f959b30-ca3e-4276-9805-d74e155afbb7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"A helicopter takes off after responding Wednesday to an injured motorcyclist on U.S. Highway 550 north of the New Mexico line.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A helicopter takes off after responding Wednesday to an injured motorcyclist on U.S. Highway 550 north of the New Mexico line.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A motorcycle crash Wednesday afternoon on U.S. Highway 550 just north of the New Mexico line sent two Bloomfield residents to the hospital, including a woman who was airlifted with a head injury, according to the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred about 11:45 a.m. in the 1000 block of Highway 550. Both lanes of travel were closed while a helicopter landed. The highway remained partially closed while law enforcement investigated.<\/p>\n<p>A 61-year-old man was taken to Mercy Regional Medical Center, and a woman in her 60s was flown out with head injuries, said Trooper Jeffrey Chmielewski, with the State Patrol. He did not immediately have the victims\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 identities.<\/p>\n<p>The three-wheel trike Harley-Davidson motorcycle was the only vehicle involved in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>No further information was available Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>airlifted with head injury<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[254,1384],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-64702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/64702","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=64702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64702"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=64702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}