Three vehicles were involved in a crash shortly after 9 a.m. Monday on Hesperus Hill on U.S. Highway 160 west of Durango. The La Plata County Sheriff’s Office, Colorado State Patrol, Durango Fire Protection District and Fort Lewis Mesa Fire Protection District responded to the crash, which involved an SUV, a minivan and a compact car. The driver of the SUV received a citation for careless driving.
Mary Shinn/Durango Herald
Three vehicles were involved in a crash shortly after 9 a.m. Monday on Hesperus Hill on U.S. Highway 160 west of Durango. The driver of the SUV received a citation for careless driving.
Mary Shinn/Durango Herald
Three vehicles were involved in a crash shortly after 9 a.m. Monday on Hesperus Hill on U.S. Highway 160 west of Durango. The driver of the SUV received a citation for careless driving.
Mary Shinn/Durango Herald
By Mary Shinn
Herald Staff Writer
The driver of an SUV was cited for careless driving after a multiple vehicle crash Monday morning on Hesperus Hill.
The driver of a 2005 GMC turned from Colorado Highway 140 into the westbound lane of U.S. Highway 160 and collided with a 2017 Dodge minivan, State Patrol Trooper Josh Lewis said. The minivan was headed east.
A 2017 Nissan car was also headed east and swerved to avoid the SUV and the van. It sustained damage to its passenger side, Lewis said.
Steven Stahr, a 39-year-old man from Oregon, was driving the 2005 GMC and received the careless driving citation, Lewis said.
One person involved in the crash, a 25-year-old passenger traveling in the Nissan, was injured in the crash, he said.
