{"id":65632,"date":"2019-07-29T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T18:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-dies-after-vehicle-rolls-off-road-outside-silverton\/"},"modified":"2019-07-29T18:03:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T18:03:10","slug":"man-dies-after-vehicle-rolls-off-road-outside-silverton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-dies-after-vehicle-rolls-off-road-outside-silverton\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after vehicle rolls off road outside Silverton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0e7de7b3-49e0-4489-95ea-ab12bbb6caab&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1444\" height=\"749\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>An 83-year-old New Mexico man died this weekend after his vehicle went off a mountainous road outside Silverton.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado State Patrol Capt. Adrian Driscoll identified the deceased man as Roland Keeter of Flora Vista.<\/p>\n<p>Driscoll said Keeter\u2019s 1984 Jeep CJ-5 on Saturday morning left the roadway near the junction of county roads 33 and 33a, the route that goes up Kendall Mountain and turns off to access Deer Park.<\/p>\n<p>The Jeep rolled backward 1\u00bd times and ejected Keeter. Driscoll said the vehicle came to rest at the bottom of a creek, with Keeter beneath it.<\/p>\n<p>Keeter was alone at the time of the crash. Authorities received a report about the incident from a passerby around 7:55 a.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Driscoll said the crash is under investigation, but alcohol and drugs are not suspected factors. He did not have further information.<\/p>\n<p>The San Juan County Sheriff\u2019s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/San-Juan-County-Sheriffs-Office-Colorado-222253791278513\/posts\/?ref=page_internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a post to social media<\/a> San Juan County Search and Rescue, Silverton Fire, the Sheriff\u2019s Office and Animas Towing all assisted Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say 83-year-old ejected from Jeep<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[701,28,29,51,1562,327],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-65632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-disasters-and-crashes","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-police","tag-san-juan-county-colorado","tag-silverton"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65632","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=65632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65632"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=65632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}