{"id":46487,"date":"2021-05-31T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/missouri-man-killed-in-bayfield-crash-on-saturday\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:32:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:32:03","slug":"missouri-man-killed-in-bayfield-crash-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/missouri-man-killed-in-bayfield-crash-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri man killed in Bayfield crash on Saturday"},"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 31-year-old Missouri man driving westbound in a Chrysler van with five passengers was killed Saturday afternoon near the Shell station in Bayfield after he swerved into the eastbound lane, hitting an oncoming SUV.<\/p>\n<p>The crash that killed Neil Hendrix of Pacific, Missouri, occurred at 12:26 p.m. near mile marker 105 on U.S. Highway 160, said Colorado State Patrol Trooper Josh Lewis. Hendrix was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Hendrix\u2019s van swerved into the eastbound lane hitting an Audi SUV driven by Vivian Ponti, 20, of Bayfield, Lewis said. Ponti was transported to a hospital with minor injuries, Lewis said.<\/p>\n<p>The case remains under investigation, and it is not known what caused Hendrix to swerve into the wrong lane, Lewis said.<\/p>\n<p>The summary report available to Lewis did not name the hospital where Ponti was taken.<\/p>\n<p>Five other passengers in the van, Hendrix\u2019s wife, Roxanne Hendrix, 27, and four children, all from Missouri, also suffered minor injuries, Lewis said.<\/p>\n<p>The children included a 7-year-old boy, a 4-year-old girl, a 2-year-old boy and a 1-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis declined to name the children because they are minors.<\/p>\n<p>Drugs, excessive speed and weather are not considered factors in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone involved in the crash was wearing seat belts or in child-restraint seats, Lewis said.<\/p>\n<p><em id=\"emphasis-accb2687712f82b426e885cd9476cc06\"><a href=\"mailto:parmijo@durangoherald.com\">parmijo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wife, 4 children from Missouri and a Bayfield woman suffer minor injuries<\/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":[701,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-46487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-disasters-and-crashes","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46487","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=46487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86899,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46487\/revisions\/86899"}],"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=46487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46487"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=46487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}