Firefighters place absorbent material around a motorcycle that crashed Thursday on U.S. Highway 160 at the Lake Durango intersection west of Durango. The driver of the motorcycle died at the scene. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
Firefighters place absorbent material around a motorcycle that crashed Thursday on U.S. Highway 160 at the Lake Durango intersection west of Durango. The driver of the motorcycle died at the scene. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)cca

A motorcyclist died after rear-ending a Porsche on Thursday west of Durango.

The crash was reported at 4:54 p.m. near mile marker 77 of U.S. Highway 160, about 3½ miles east of the summit of Hesperus Hill, said Master Trooper Gary Cutler, with the Colorado State Patrol.

The crash was blocking traffic, but the highway remained open.

The motorcyclist is suspected of being at fault, Cutler said.

No further information was immediately available Thursday night.

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A motorcycle crashed into the back of a Porsche on Thursday near the Lake Durango intersection on U.S. Highway 160, west of Durango. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
A motorcycle crashed into the back of a Porsche on Thursday near the Lake Durango intersection on U.S. Highway 160, west of Durango. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)cca
A La Plata County Sheriff's Office deputy directs traffic around a motorcycle that crashed Thursday on U.S. Highway 160 at the Lake Durango intersection west of Durango. The motorcyclist was killed in the crash. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)
A La Plata County Sheriff's Office deputy directs traffic around a motorcycle that crashed Thursday on U.S. Highway 160 at the Lake Durango intersection west of Durango. The motorcyclist was killed in the crash. (Jerry McBride/Durango Herald)cca