{"id":74483,"date":"2019-09-24T19:57:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T19:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/drugs-suspected-in-rollover-east-of-durango\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:57:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:57:33","slug":"drugs-suspected-in-rollover-east-of-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/drugs-suspected-in-rollover-east-of-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"Drugs suspected in rollover east of Durango"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5605cd70-01e5-4cb3-8509-da00dcc6c35b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"A single-vehicle rollover closed U.S. Highway 160 in both directions about 1:40 p.m. Saturday east of Elmore\u2019s Corner on U.S. Highway 160. Two boys and a 19-year-old man were taken to Mercy Regional Medical Center with serious injuries. Drugs are a possible factor in the crash.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A single-vehicle rollover closed U.S. Highway 160 in both directions about 1:40 p.m. Saturday east of Elmore\u2019s Corner on U.S. Highway 160. Two boys and a 19-year-old man were taken to Mercy Regional Medical Center with serious injuries. Drugs are a possible factor in the crash.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Shane Benjamin\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Two boys and a 19-year-old man were injured Saturday afternoon in a single-vehicle rollover east of Elmore\u2019s Corner on U.S. Highway 160.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado State Patrol Trooper Jeff Chmielewski said the driver, one of the juveniles, and a back seat passenger, the 19-year-old from Durango, were ejected and seriously injured in the crash. They were transported to Mercy Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>The other passenger, the second juvenile, also suffered serious injuries and was transported to Mercy, Chmielewski said.<\/p>\n<p>Seat belts were not used by the two occupants who were ejected. In addition, he said drugs are suspected as a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred about 1:40 p.m. Saturday near mile post 93. The juvenile was driving a 1999 beige Saturn passenger car and was headed westbound, Chmielewski said.<\/p>\n<p>Highway 160 was closed in both directions while medical and law enforcement officials worked the scene.<\/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>3 hurt in crash on Highway 160<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5737,5736,5735,5741,5858],"tags":[28,29,254],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-74483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-local-news","category-news","category-newsletter","category-road-crash","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-road-crash"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74483","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=74483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92434,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74483\/revisions\/92434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74483"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=74483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}