{"id":65797,"date":"2019-07-08T01:47:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T01:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/motorcyclist-crashes-on-u-s-highway-550\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:46:04","slug":"motorcyclist-crashes-on-u-s-highway-550","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/motorcyclist-crashes-on-u-s-highway-550\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist crashes on U.S. Highway 550"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3cb200b8-f3a9-49b9-860c-8933a7133dfb&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>A motorcyclist from the Front Range suffered serious injuries Friday morning after crashing between Molas Pass and Silverton on U.S. Highway 550.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado State Patrol Trooper Jeff Chmielewski said Chance Vonholle, 28, of the Fountain area suffered severe injuries in the single-vehicle crash around 11:30 a.m. and was sent to Mercy Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>Mercy spokeswoman Sarah Silvernail said Vonholle has been treated and released.<\/p>\n<p>Chmielewski said excessive speed was a factor. Vonholle could not control his vehicle in a turn and drove off the left side of the road and hit rocks.<\/p>\n<p>Chmielewski did not have details concerning Vanholle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s injuries.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:parmijo@durangoherald.com\">parmijo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>man taken to Mercy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5737,5736,5735,5858,6153],"tags":[28,254,1384],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-65797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-local-news","category-news","category-road-crash","category-u-s-highway-550","tag-headlines","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\/65797","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=65797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93084,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65797\/revisions\/93084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65797"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=65797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}