{"id":369978,"date":"2026-07-12T02:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369978\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T02:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T02:45:09","slug":"crash-shuts-down-highway-in-area-south-of-el-paso-county-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/369978\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash shuts down highway in area south of El Paso County Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; A crash led to lanes of a highway being shut down south of the El Paso County Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the Colorado Department of Transportation, the crash happened on U.S. Highway 85, forcing closures in both directions between East Las Vegas Street and Maxwell Street on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On scene, a vehicle appeared to have hit a utility pole. According to Colorado Springs Utilities, there was a power outage in that same area that impacted 25 customers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">So far, officials have not released more information on the crash, nor co<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KKTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KKTV) &#8211; A crash led to lanes of a highway being shut down south&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-369978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}