{"id":73975,"date":"2019-08-14T19:07:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T01:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/rollover-crash-kills-two-leaves-ignacio-girls-orphaned\/"},"modified":"2019-08-15T01:07:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T01:07:31","slug":"rollover-crash-kills-two-leaves-ignacio-girls-orphaned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/rollover-crash-kills-two-leaves-ignacio-girls-orphaned\/","title":{"rendered":"Rollover crash kills two, leaves Ignacio girls orphaned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=cfe0276e-ea89-4ee9-ad95-8ffac137d331&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>An Ignacio family crashed an SUV on Interstate 25 just north of Trinidad on Tuesday, killing the parents and leaving two girls orphaned, according to the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Jessica and Leon Sage were driving a 2001 Chevrolet Tahoe south on the interstate with their daughters, ages 5 and 13, around 10 a.m. when the vehicle crossed <em class=\"x-Index pipe\">the white fog line on the west side of the road and collided with two reflective posts that show drivers where pavement ends, <\/em><em class=\"x-Index pipe\">the State Patrol said in a news release. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"x-Index pipe\">The girls were wearing seat belts, law enforcement said; the parents were not.  <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"x-Index pipe\">Leon, who was driving, over-corrected and crossed the interstate to the east, troopers wrote in a preliminary report. The vehicle rolled twice, the parents were ejected and the girls suffered minor injuries, according to law enforcement. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"x-Index pipe\">Jessica, 31, and Leon, 33, were found dead at the scene. The girls were taken to a Front Range hospital, although <\/em><em class=\"x-Index pipe\">State Patrol spokesman Joshua Lewis said Wednesday he did not know which medical facility.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"x-Index pipe\">Trooper Lewis said it\u2019s common for windows to break when a vehicle rolls. Law enforcement is investigating what caused the vehicle to leave the road and how fast it was traveling when it did, Lewis said. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"x-Index pipe\">Details about how far the vehicle went off the road<\/em><em class=\"x-Index pipe\"> and <\/em><em class=\"x-Index pipe\">information about who has custody of the girls was not immediately available Wednesday afternoon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"x-Index pipe\">Jessica and Leon were married in 2010, according to a Facebook page matching the family\u2019s description, but no further information was immediately available about the couple or their children.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><em class=\"x-Index pipe\"><a href=\"mailto:bhauff@durangoherald.com\">bhauff@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents ejected from SUV north of Trinidad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[701,28,1235,254,4242],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-73975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-disasters-and-crashes","tag-headlines","tag-ignacio","tag-road-crash","tag-transport-crash"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73975","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=73975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73975"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}