{"id":41031,"date":"2022-04-23T00:11:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T06:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/motorcyclist-collides-with-deer-west-of-durango-on-u-s-highway-160\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:58:48","slug":"motorcyclist-collides-with-deer-west-of-durango-on-u-s-highway-160","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/motorcyclist-collides-with-deer-west-of-durango-on-u-s-highway-160\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist collides with deer west of Durango on U.S. Highway 160"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3b2a82ce-45e0-573b-a60f-0c1ecf381990&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1064\" alt=\"Emergency responders from Fort Lewis Mesa Fire Protection District and Durango Fire Protection District place a motorcyclist in an ambulance Friday after he struck a deer on U.S. Highway 160 west of Hesperus. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Emergency responders from Fort Lewis Mesa Fire Protection District and Durango Fire Protection District place a motorcyclist in an ambulance Friday after he struck a deer on U.S. Highway 160 west of Hesperus. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A California man was in \u201cstable\u201d condition Friday night after hitting a deer while riding a motorcycle on U.S. Highway 160 west of Durango.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred about 1:45 p.m. near milepost 64, between Hesperus and Mancos Hill, said Cpl. Jonathan Silver, with the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Gerard San Gemino, 50, of Culver City, California, was traveling eastbound toward Durango when a deer darted in front of him, Silver said.<\/p>\n<p>The deer appeared to be going north across the highway, he said. San Gemino attempted to swerve left but was unable to avoid the animal, Silver said.<\/p>\n<p>San Gemino was riding a Triumph motorcycle. He was wearing a helmet, and he had an airbag motorcycle vest that \u201creally helped out and kept him from getting too injured,\u201d Silver said.<\/p>\n<p>San Gemino was taken to Mercy Hospital where he was listed in stable condition Friday night, according to a hospital spokeswoman.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a preliminary accident investigation, it does not appear as though speed was a factor in the crash, Silver said. Likewise, neither drugs nor alcohol are suspected, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just bad luck on connecting with the deer when he did,\u201d Silver said.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-2a711778ef4ffc11b3b13e205a1dca1c\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California in \u2018stable\u2019 condition Friday at Mercy Hospital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,1531,52,68,1936,254,69],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-41031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-injury","tag-law-enforcement","tag-mercy-regional-medical-center","tag-motorcycling","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\/41031","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=41031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84832,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41031\/revisions\/84832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41031"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=41031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}