{"id":92896,"date":"2019-07-19T01:50:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T01:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/aztec-woman-dies-in-u-s-highway-550-crash\/"},"modified":"2019-07-19T01:50:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T01:50:31","slug":"aztec-woman-dies-in-u-s-highway-550-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/aztec-woman-dies-in-u-s-highway-550-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Aztec woman dies in U.S. Highway 550 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=d57cb598-9150-483f-b83b-dac5a76c08f6&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>A 47-year-old Aztec woman died Wednesday morning after a crash on U.S. Highway 550 near the Colorado-New Mexico state line.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico State Police said in a news release the crash was reported just before 9 a.m. Wednesday at mile marker 172, north of Aztec.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a 2006 Toyota Scion was headed north on Highway 550 when the driver made a U-turn at the intersection of County Road 2105 in San Juan County. The vehicle was struck from behind by a 2018 Kia Soul that was traveling south on Highway 550.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Toyota, identified as Amy Huaman, died as a result of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>A 54-year-old woman who was a passenger in the Toyota was airlifted to an area hospital. Her injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, New Mexico State Police said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Kia, a 23-year-old man, did not suffer injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Alcohol does not appear to be a factor in the crash, police said, and it appears everyone involved in the incident was wearing a seat belt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>woman attempted to make U-turn, was struck by oncoming vehicle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5737,5736,5735,5741,5858,6153],"tags":[28,29,254,1384],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-92896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-local-news","category-news","category-newsletter","category-road-crash","category-u-s-highway-550","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-road-crash","tag-u-s-highway-550"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92896","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=92896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92896"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=92896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}