{"id":94852,"date":"2019-04-02T18:32:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T00:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/head-on-collision-injures-three-southeast-of-cortez\/"},"modified":"2019-04-02T18:32:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T00:32:30","slug":"head-on-collision-injures-three-southeast-of-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/head-on-collision-injures-three-southeast-of-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Head-on collision injures three southeast of Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=818dbf3d-b40c-4d92-97e1-aef9f458fc74&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=818dbf3d-b40c-4d92-97e1-aef9f458fc74&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=818dbf3d-b40c-4d92-97e1-aef9f458fc74&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=818dbf3d-b40c-4d92-97e1-aef9f458fc74&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1289\" alt=\"A two-vehicle crash on Road 27 Tuesday afternoon caused injuries, according to the Colorado State Patrol.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A two-vehicle crash on Road 27 Tuesday afternoon caused injuries, according to the Colorado State Patrol.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A two-vehicle crash Tuesday afternoon on County Road 27 southeast of Cortez caused injuries, according to the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>About 5:20 p.m., a northbound silver sedan was hit head-on by a southbound pickup truck suspected of crossing into the oncoming lane, said Trooper Loving.<\/p>\n<p>The sedan sustained severe front-end damage, and the pickup ended up partly in the ditch. Airbags in both vehicles deployed. The accident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Two passengers from the sedan and the driver of the pickup were transported to Southwest Memorial Hospital with injuries, Loving said. The driver of the car remained at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic was delayed for more than a half-hour in both directions on Road 27 to allow time for rescue operations and for damaged vehicles to be towed off the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado State Patrol, a Southwest Health System ambulance crew, and Cortez Fire Protection District responded to the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Injured taken to hospital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[21,13,538,4242],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-94852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-southwest-memorial-hospital","tag-transport-crash"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94852","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=94852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94852"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=94852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}