{"id":75164,"date":"2020-03-08T22:57:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T04:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fatal-crash-investigation-continues-into-the-weekend\/"},"modified":"2020-03-09T04:57:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T04:57:09","slug":"fatal-crash-investigation-continues-into-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/fatal-crash-investigation-continues-into-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal crash investigation continues into the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a0925b5a-a778-48fe-a82d-0eed82cf945d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1300\" height=\"838\" alt=\"Flowers mark the area on County Road 105 northwest of Red Mesa on Thursday where the crash happened that claimed the life of cyclist Ben Sonntag on Wednesday.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Flowers mark the area on County Road 105 northwest of Red Mesa on Thursday where the crash happened that claimed the life of cyclist Ben Sonntag on Wednesday.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Colorado State Patrol continued its investigation into the death of local professional cyclist Ben Sonntag into the weekend, declining to release information as law enforcement considers charges related to the fatal crash this week, according to a spokesman for the agency.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/317099-pro-mountain-biker-ben-sonntag-identified-as-cyclist-in-fatal-crash\">Sonntag<\/a>, 39, on Wednesday was traveling north on County Road 105 on his Specialized Tarmac road bicycle when he was hit by 19-year-old Cordell Schneider of Durango, who was driving a green 1991 Ford Ranger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pickup truck traveled off the right side of the road, colliding with a fence, continued through a field, and then off an embankment before coming to rest on its right side in Cherry Creek,\u201d the State Patrol said in a news release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado State Patrol declines to release information related to death of Ben Sonntag<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[701,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-75164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-disasters-and-crashes","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75164","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=75164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75164"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=75164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}