{"id":74857,"date":"2020-02-14T12:55:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T19:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/authorities-believe-speed-brakes-had-roles-in-fatal-crash\/"},"modified":"2020-02-14T19:55:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T19:55:59","slug":"authorities-believe-speed-brakes-had-roles-in-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/authorities-believe-speed-brakes-had-roles-in-fatal-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities believe speed, brakes had roles in fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=00dd00b8-2f26-4278-a617-d0a9b83fbaf4&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1636\" alt=\"Courtesy of San Miquel County Sheriff&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A Durango man died Monday after crashing on Colorado Highway 141, just south of Slick Rock.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Courtesy of San Miquel County Sheriff&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A Durango man died Monday after crashing on Colorado Highway 141, just south of Slick Rock.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Investigators believe excessive speed led to a fatal crash that killed a 37-year-old Durango man earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado State Patrol Master Trooper Gary Cutler said Lance Luedtke was driving an International semitrailer, hauling a water tank, and <a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/314463-durango-man-killed-in-crash-north-of-dove-creek\">heading north on Colorado Highway 141 on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Around 2 p.m., near mile post 19, just south of Slick Rock where the highway starts a steep descent to the Dolores River, Luedtke failed to navigate a right-hand curve and went off the highway. The truck rolled onto its side and hit a big rock that collapsed the cab of the truck, Cutler said.<\/p>\n<p>Luedtke, who was wearing a seat belt, died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Cutler said investigators believe Luedtke was driving too fast, and when he pressed the brakes for the turn, the brakes couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t handle the weight.<\/p>\n<p>Alcohol and drugs are not suspected factors in the crash. Luedtke was the sole occupant of the truck, and no one else was injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation was continuing.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was closed for several hours in both directions after the crash and reopened about 9:15 p.m. Monday.<\/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>unable to handle weight of the truck, Colorado State Patrol says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[701,1152],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-74857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-disasters-and-crashes","tag-emergency-incident"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74857","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=74857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74857"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=74857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}