{"id":26389,"date":"2024-07-29T23:37:24","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T05:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/34-year-old-motorcyclist-killed-in-crash-near-top-of-coal-bank-pass\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T23:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:38:47","slug":"34-year-old-motorcyclist-killed-in-crash-near-top-of-coal-bank-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/34-year-old-motorcyclist-killed-in-crash-near-top-of-coal-bank-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"34-year-old motorcyclist killed in crash near top of Coal Bank Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=128787ad-3319-5157-b8e5-3ba8545f7917&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Blotter lights\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Blotter lights<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A 34-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a single-vehicle crash Saturday on U.S. Highway 550 near the top of Coal Bank Pass, between Durango and Silverton.<\/p>\n<p>Forest Pivirotto of Tucumari, N.M., was driving a KTM 990 motorcycle northbound on Highway 550 when he attempted to pass another vehicle on a double-yellow line, said Capt. Angela DeGuelle, with the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>As he did, Pivirotto entered a sharp left-hand turn and lost control, crashing into the guardrail, she said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was reported at 11:48 a.m. near mile marker 58, about a mile north of the summit with Coal Bank Pass.<\/p>\n<p>Pivirotto was endorsed to ride motorcycles and was wearing a helmet, DeGuelle said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have no reason to believe drugs or alcohol were involved in the crash, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Off-duty medical personnel driving by at the time attempted to save Pivirotto\u2019s life by applying a tourniquet. A Flight For Life helicopter arrived on scene and was in route to St. Mary\u2019s Hospital in Grand Junction when Pivirotto was pronounced dead. The helicopter landed in Montrose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>passing on double-yellow and lost control, according to Colorado State Patrol <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[255,28,29,254,1384],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-26389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-death-and-dying","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-road-crash","tag-u-s-highway-550"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79340,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26389\/revisions\/79340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26389"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=26389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}