{"id":1315387,"date":"2019-10-07T20:42:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T02:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=988798"},"modified":"2019-10-07T20:42:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T02:42:04","slug":"fatal-wreck-temporarily-closes-state-highway-13-north-of-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/fatal-wreck-temporarily-closes-state-highway-13-north-of-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal wreck temporarily closes State Highway 13 north of Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two people died in a head-on collision north of Rifle on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

According to Trooper Josh Lewis, Colorado State Patrol received a call of a wreck on Highway 13 eight miles north of 1-70 outside of Rifle Monday at 4:17 p.m.<\/p>\n

Responding agencies included CSP and Garfield County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Once on the scene, CSP reported the collision involved a late model Pickup and SUV. The 58-year-old male driver of the pickup was flown to St. Mary\u2019s in Junction via CareFLIGHT of the Rockies.<\/p>\n

CSP reported two fatalities at the scene; no other information or identification of the deceased was available Monday evening.<\/p>\n

Lewis said the Highway was closed for a little over three hours Monday evening.<\/p>\n

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Two people died in a head-on collision north of Rifle on Monday afternoon. According to Trooper Josh Lewis, Colorado State Patrol received a call of a wreck on Highway 13 eight miles north of 1-70 outside of Rifle Monday at 4:17 p.m. Responding agencies included CSP and Garfield County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Once on the scene, […]<\/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":["post-1315387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 20:11:53","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\/1315387","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=1315387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}