{"id":33314,"date":"2023-06-21T19:33:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T01:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/crash-at-navajo-dam-kills-two\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:08:14","slug":"crash-at-navajo-dam-kills-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/crash-at-navajo-dam-kills-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash at Navajo Dam kills two"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e92a86ee-66d3-4973-ab4d-e9660616316c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"The &amp;#x201c;Quality Waters&amp;#x201d; section of the San Juan River below Navajo Dam, which stretches for 4.5 miles, boasts one of the best trout fisheries in North America.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The &amp;#x201c;Quality Waters&amp;#x201d; section of the San Juan River below Navajo Dam, which stretches for 4.5 miles, boasts one of the best trout fisheries in North America.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The New Mexico State Police are investigating a fatal crash at Navajo Dam. The one-vehicle collision resulted in the death of two Farmington residents.<\/p>\n<p>The crash around 6 p.m. June 18 involved a 2003 Subaru driven by Rachel Kahwajy, 31, of Farmington. Kahwajy was driving on New Mexico 539 near the intersection of New Mexico 511.<\/p>\n<p>She approached a tight curve, and \u201cfor reasons still under investigation, Ms. Kahwajy failed to negotiate the curve and ended up driving over a cliff,\u201d a news release from the state police stated.<\/p>\n<p>Kahwajy was fatally injured and was pronounced dead at the scene, as was her passenger, Glenn Taketa, 53, of Farmington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woman drives off cliff in accident<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-33314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"Website Administrator","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82146,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33314\/revisions\/82146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33314"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=33314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}