{"id":33269,"date":"2023-06-21T18:31:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T00:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-killed-in-crash-involving-motorcycle-and-pickup-truck-east-of-bayfield\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:08:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:08:02","slug":"two-killed-in-crash-involving-motorcycle-and-pickup-truck-east-of-bayfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/two-killed-in-crash-involving-motorcycle-and-pickup-truck-east-of-bayfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in crash involving motorcycle and pickup truck east of Bayfield"},"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>Two Colorado travelers were killed in a motorcycle versus pickup truck crash Wednesday east of Bayfield.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was reported at 10:57 a.m. near U.S. Highway 160 and Colorado Highway 151, near Chimney Rock, said Colorado State Patrol Trooper Gabriel Moltrer.<\/p>\n<p>Two people on the motorcycle were killed in the crash. The Archuleta County coroner identified them as Chad and Melissa White of Brush, east of Fort Morgan.<\/p>\n<p>Chad and Melissa were husband and wife. Chad was age 49; his wife\u2019s age was not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very unfortunate \u2013 somebody just out to have a good time,\u201d said Brad Hunt, county coroner. \u201cIt looks like they were going on a little trip, and then something like this happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred when the driver of a Ford pickup traveling west on Highway 160 attempted to turn left onto Highway 151 and failed to yield to the oncoming motorcycle, said CSP Capt. John Trentini.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"naviga-map\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=37.210103504754%2C-107.26330626638&amp;z=15&amp;output=embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Map\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<p>Both motorcyclists were believed to be wearing helmets at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Neither drugs nor alcohol are suspected factors in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>A similar crash occurred June 13 on U.S. Highway 160 east of Durango where a vehicle turning left failed to yield to a motorcyclist, resulting in the motorcyclist being killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease watch for motorcycles,\u201d Trentini said. \u201cIt\u2019s motorcycle season and sometimes they\u2019re hard to see. \u2026 This summer is only going to get busier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The driver was identified as Thomas Audetat of Pagosa Springs.<\/p>\n<p>A GoFundMe account for Chad and Melissa White can be found by searching \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/chad-and-melissa-white-funeral-and-memorial-fund\" id=\"link-bd52718a027a2ac34bc1d967cda421d7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chad and Melissa White funeral and memorial fund<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-7bf6087730316317eb07db39ad7ec8ca\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>traveling east on U.S. Highway 160 when vehicle turned in front of them<\/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":[255,28,254,69],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-33269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-death-and-dying","tag-headlines","tag-road-crash","tag-u-s-highway-160"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33269","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=33269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82129,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33269\/revisions\/82129"}],"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=33269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33269"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=33269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}