{"id":52908,"date":"2020-07-03T14:46:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T20:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/motorcyclist-crashes-on-main-avenue-suffers-head-injury\/"},"modified":"2020-07-03T20:46:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-03T20:46:48","slug":"motorcyclist-crashes-on-main-avenue-suffers-head-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/motorcyclist-crashes-on-main-avenue-suffers-head-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist crashes on Main Avenue, suffers head injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=81132136-067a-4a45-ae88-c4873920dbef&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1300\" height=\"934\" alt=\"An inexperienced motorcyclist lost control, hit a \u201cbump-out\u201d and crashed on Main Avenue on Thursday evening, according to the Durango Police Department. The driver was taken to a hospital in Denver with a head injury. No one else was injured.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">An inexperienced motorcyclist lost control, hit a \u201cbump-out\u201d and crashed on Main Avenue on Thursday evening, according to the Durango Police Department. The driver was taken to a hospital in Denver with a head injury. No one else was injured.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Shane Benjamin\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>An inexperienced motorcyclist hit a \u201cbump-out\u201d and crashed onto a sidewalk Thursday evening on Main Avenue in downtown Durango, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred about 7 p.m. in the 1000 block of Main Avenue. The motorcyclist turned right out of a parking lot near Cream Bean Berry, wobbled back and forth and hit a bump-out near Carver Brewing Co., according to witnesses and police.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist continued south and crashed into a light pole on the east side of Main Avenue, just south of Carvers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was coming out of a parking lot there. He is an inexperienced rider, is my understanding. He lost control of the vehicle, hit one of the new bump-outs,\u201d said Durango police Chief Bob Brammer. \u201cThat was the obstacle in the way that hindered the rest of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brammer said the man suffered a head injury and was taken to Mercy Regional Medical Center before being taken to a hospital in the Denver area.<\/p>\n<p>He declined to release the motorcyclist\u2019s name Friday, but said the man is 30 years old and had an Illinois driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p>Shops and restaurants have been allowed to use part of the Main Avenue right of way as a way to expand their footprint during the age of social distancing because of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>As such, several diners at Carvers and Cream Bean Berry witnessed the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Brammer said his biggest concern about the bump-outs on Main Avenue is that there is insufficient infrastructure in some places to prevent vehicles from crashing into people enjoying the spaces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a motorcycle, so I guess potentially we could have been fortunate in that regard,\u201d he said. \u201cAny time there\u2019s injury it is very unfortunate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:shane@durangoherald.com\">shane@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>man lost control, hit \u2018bump-out\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-52908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52908","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=52908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52908"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=52908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}