{"id":1311770,"date":"2019-06-24T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T21:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=982202"},"modified":"2019-06-24T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T21:55:52","slug":"woman-killed-in-friday-crash-on-i-70-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/woman-killed-in-friday-crash-on-i-70-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed in Friday crash on I-70 identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"472\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/newsUpdateGreen_472x278.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/newsUpdateGreen_472x278.jpg 472w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/newsUpdateGreen_472x278-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/newsUpdateGreen_472x278-325x191.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A woman killed in a crash on Interstate 70 near Silt on Friday has been identified by authorities as Sandra McDowell, age 71, of Grand Junction.<\/p>\n<p>McDowell was the passenger in a vehicle driven by her husband when the accident occurred about 1:10 p.m. Friday at the Silt exit (Exit 97).<\/p>\n<p>An autopsy was performed by the Garfield County Coroner\u2019s Office contract forensic pathologist.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cause of death is multiple blunt force injuries,\u201d according to Garfield County Coroner Robert Glassmire.&nbsp;The manner of death is being investigated as an accident.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>McDowell was pronounced dead at the scene. She and her husband were headed eastbound when the vehicle skidded out of control on the rain-slick highway and crossed the median into the westbound lanes.<\/p>\n<p>At least two other vehicles traveling westbound struck the couple\u2019s vehicle head-on. The driver was transported to the hospital and did not have life threatening injuries. One additional person from another vehicle was transported to the hospital, also with non-life threatening injuries, according to a Friday press release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/woman-killed-in-friday-crash-on-i-70-identified\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman killed in a crash on Interstate 70 near Silt on Friday has been identified by authorities as Sandra McDowell, age 71, of Grand Junction. McDowell was the passenger in a vehicle driven by her husband when the accident occurred about 1:10 p.m. Friday at the Silt exit (Exit 97). An autopsy was performed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1311770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 14:37:26","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":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}