{"id":45768,"date":"2021-07-16T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T06:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/motorcyclist-killed-in-crash-west-of-durango\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:27:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:27:17","slug":"motorcyclist-killed-in-crash-west-of-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/motorcyclist-killed-in-crash-west-of-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist killed in crash west of Durango"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=b362692e-bdad-5fcb-8e02-e5a55b547e7f&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1069\" alt=\"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)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">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)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>A motorcyclist died after rear-ending a Porsche on Thursday west of Durango.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was reported at 4:54 p.m. near mile marker 77 of U.S. Highway 160, about 3\u00bd miles east of the summit of Hesperus Hill, said Master Trooper Gary Cutler, with the Colorado State Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was blocking traffic, but the highway remained open.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist is suspected of being at fault, Cutler said.<\/p>\n<p>No further information was immediately available Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-68c7b60d26f46b606ad2c220f1b7ad22\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0efe1770-f6cc-567c-b406-b2312ce4c7c0&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1089\" alt=\"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)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">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)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=964bcdf8-3c00-5b8e-b778-c826bea13b06&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1162\" alt=\"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)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">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)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Highway 160 remains open Thursday night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,1936,254,69],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-45768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","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\/45768","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=45768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86623,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45768\/revisions\/86623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45768"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=45768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}