{"id":74877,"date":"2020-02-15T02:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T02:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-speed-brakes-suspected-in-fatal-colorado-141-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:35:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:35:19","slug":"update-speed-brakes-suspected-in-fatal-colorado-141-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-speed-brakes-suspected-in-fatal-colorado-141-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Speed, brakes suspected in fatal Colorado 141 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=c8d49a8a-8e52-450a-b03b-a5bab32f167b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1636\" alt=\"A Durango man was killed after the semitrailer he was driving overturned on Colorado Highway 141 in the Slick Rock area Feb. 10, according to the San Miguel Sheriff\u2019s Office.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A Durango man was killed after the semitrailer he was driving overturned on Colorado Highway 141 in the Slick Rock area Feb. 10, according to the San Miguel Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">San Miguel County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A Durango man died in a semitrailer crash Feb. 10 on Colorado Highway 141 near Slick Rock, according to the San Miguel Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Lance G. Luedtke, age 37, was killed in the crash, San Miguel County Coroner Emil Sante said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Luedtke was the sole driver of the 1992 International truck. The cause of the accident is under investigation by the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The northbound semitrailer with a water tank overturned on a steep curve at mile marker 19 about 2 p.m. and left the roadway, according to the State Patrol and San Miguel Sheriff\u2019s Office. The truck rolled onto its side and hit a big rock that collapsed the cab, officials said. Luedtke was wearing a seatbelt and died at the scene. Alcohol and drugs are not suspected factors in the crash. No one else was injured in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>According to the crash report, a suspected cause of unsafe speed, said CSP Trooper Loving.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado State Patrol Master Trooper Gary Cutler said investigators believe Luedtke was driving too fast, and when he pressed the brakes for the turn, the brakes couldn\u2019t handle the weight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur thoughts are with the man\u2019s family,\u201d states a San Miguel Sheriff Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>The highway was closed for several hours in both directions after the crash. It reopened about 9:15 p.m. on Feb. 10.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">Durango Herald reporter Jonathan Romeo contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>suspected in crash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,255,13,28,29,254,1561],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-74877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-death-and-dying","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-road-crash","tag-san-miguel-county"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74877","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=74877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90356,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74877\/revisions\/90356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74877"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=74877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}