{"id":73890,"date":"2019-08-09T23:27:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T23:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/crash-involving-motorcycle-sends-one-to-hospital\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:03:16","slug":"crash-involving-motorcycle-sends-one-to-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/crash-involving-motorcycle-sends-one-to-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash involving motorcycle sends one to hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><!-- gallery:5042faad-f18b-4153-a224-b54619d82c93 --><\/p>\n<p>A motorcyclist was injured about 3:30 p.m. Friday after being rear-ended on U.S. Highway 160 east of Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>According to a witness, a westbound motorcyclist was making a left turn into the KOA Campground when she was rear-ended by a pickup truck.<\/p>\n<p>She was transported to Southwest Memorial Hospital, but her injuries were not life-threatening, according to EMS officials at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcycle stayed upright but was lodged under the truck\u2019s front bumper. Cortez Fire Protection District crews used a hydraulic spreader to help free the bike. The collision is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic was delayed about 20 minutes in both directions while the accident was investigated and vehicles moved off the roadway. A roadblock was set up at the intersection of Colorado Highway 145 and U.S. 160 to divert traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The Cortez Fire Protection District, Cortez Police Department, Montezuma County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Southwest Health System ambulance responded to the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incident east of Cortez stopped traffic for 20 minutes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5738,5740,5737,5736,5735,5741,5806],"tags":[21,13,28,29,4242],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-73890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cortez","category-frontpage-lead","category-headlines","category-local-news","category-news","category-newsletter","category-transport-crash","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-transport-crash"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73890","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=73890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92626,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73890\/revisions\/92626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73890"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}