{"id":30853,"date":"2019-09-14T09:30:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T15:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=60159"},"modified":"2019-09-14T09:30:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T15:30:37","slug":"one-dead-after-serious-wreck-on-us-40-csp-continues-to-investigate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/one-dead-after-serious-wreck-on-us-40-csp-continues-to-investigate\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after serious wreck on US 40; CSP continues to investigate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado State Patrol is investigating a car accident on US Highway 40 late Friday evening, which has left one dead and one with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Around 11 p.m. Friday, a Grand County Deputy observed a black Range Rover SUV headed west on US 40 outside Granby at a high rate of speed. The officer turned on their lights, at which point the Range Rover sped up to over 100 miles per hour, according to CSP.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy lost sight of the vehicle, but continued to pursue it and a short time later they observed debris on the ground near milepost 219. Since the area is unlit, the circumstances of the crash were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>However, based on the initial investigation, troopers determined the Range Rover struck a red Subaru Outback inside the westbound lanes. Both cars were found far off the right side of the highway.<\/p>\n<p>The Range Rover was determined to have been speeding and the one to cause the accident, according to CSP.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Range Rover was dead at the scene and the driver of the Subaru Outback was airlifted to St. Anthony&#8217;s Hospital in Lakewood with serious injuries. The driver of the Subaru Outback is not in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/serious-wreck-closes-us-40-between-granby-tabernash-late-friday-night\/\">US 40 was closed for around two hours <\/a>until the scene was documented and lanes were cleared to allow traffic in both directions.<\/p>\n<p>CSP continues to investigate the crash and left both vehicles in their resting spots. They noted that speed, impairment, reckless driving and attempting to allude the law are potential factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado State Patrol is investigating a car accident on US Highway 40 late Friday evening, which has left one dead and one with serious injuries. Around 11 p.m. Friday, a Grand County Deputy observed a black Range Rover SUV headed west on US 40 outside Granby at a high rate of speed. The officer turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 11:59:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}