{"id":46137,"date":"2021-06-22T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-killed-in-motorcycle-crash-on-south-camino-del-rio-in-durango\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:29:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:29:53","slug":"man-killed-in-motorcycle-crash-on-south-camino-del-rio-in-durango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/man-killed-in-motorcycle-crash-on-south-camino-del-rio-in-durango\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in motorcycle crash on South Camino del Rio in 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=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 New Mexico man died in motorcycle crash Friday night in south Durango.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred about 10:15 p.m. at the intersection of River Road and South Camino del Rio, near The Home Depot.<\/p>\n<p>George Yeager, 64, of Aztec was attempting to turn left from River Road to travel north on South Camino del Rio, said Cmdr. Ray Shupe, spokesman with Durango Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>A Ford pickup heading south on South Camino del Rio, struck the motorcyclist, Shupe said.<\/p>\n<p>The pickup was being driven by Sean O\u2019Brien, 34, of Durango. He was approaching a yellow light at the time of the crash, Shupe said.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Brien changed lanes to avoid the motorcyclist but collided with Yeager, who was wearing a helmet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeed was not a factor in the crash,\u201d Shupe said.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe Yeager may have run a red light, Shupe said. He was riding a 1978 Yamaha motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>Yeager died in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no suspicion of drugs or alcohol on O\u2019Brien,\u201d Shupe said. \u201cIt is unknown if drugs and alcohol are a factor with Yeager. We have an autopsy scheduled and are waiting on a toxicology report.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toxicology reports take about six weeks to process.<\/p>\n<p>A Durango police officer was in the area and at the scene within 60 seconds, Shupe said. The Colorado State Patrol assisted.<\/p>\n<p>Yeager\u2019s next of kin have been notified, Shupe said.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-5af88c5672ed7bfbfd19cc1e195b346a\"><a href=\"mailto:smullane@durangoherald.com\">smullane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collision with pickup truck occurred Friday evening<\/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":[255,1065,28,254],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-46137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-death-and-dying","tag-durango-police-department","tag-headlines","tag-road-crash"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46137","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=46137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86766,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46137\/revisions\/86766"}],"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=46137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46137"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=46137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}