{"id":73279,"date":"2016-07-18T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-woman-dies-mancos-man-injured-in-motorcycle-crash\/"},"modified":"2016-07-18T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T12:01:00","slug":"durango-woman-dies-mancos-man-injured-in-motorcycle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/durango-woman-dies-mancos-man-injured-in-motorcycle-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Durango woman dies, Mancos man injured in motorcycle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=eb2c9781-59a7-46ed-8a1d-def290f6759d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" alt=\"\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Monday, the Durango woman was identified as Kathleen Morrissey. The San Miguel Sheriff\u2019s Office withheld the name of the man.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release, the Sheriff\u2019s Office said deputies arrived at mile marker 66, known locally as Windy Point, around 3 p.m. to find the man on the road, bleeding and partially conscious.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Morrissey was thrown over a guardrail and discovered 30 yards down a \u201csteep embankment with bystanders, including a nurse, performing CPR.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews rappelled down the embankment and performed life-saving measures, but Morrissey was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office said the preliminary investigation shows the motorcycle was southbound on Highway 145 when it failed to negotiate the left turn past the large scenic pullout of Mount Wilson and struck the guardrail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of the Sheriff\u2019s Office and all responders, our thoughts are with the deceased\u2019s family at this very difficult time,\u201d Sheriff Bill Masters said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n<p>Both individuals were wearing helmets, according to the report, and no drugs or alcohol are suspected to have played a role.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the San Miguel Sheriff\u2019s Office could not provide a health update Monday for the man, who was taken Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango with \u201cmultiple musculoskeletal injuries\u201d that did appear life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado State Patrol has taken over the investigation.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jromeo@durangoherald.com\">jromeo@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>du1-i-syn On Monday, the Durango woman was identified as Kathleen Morrissey. The San Miguel Sheriff\u2019s Office withheld the name of the man. In a news release, the Sheriff\u2019s Office said deputies arrived at mile marker 66, known locally as Windy Point, around 3 p.m. to find the man on the road, bleeding and partially conscious. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,83,254,1561,97],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-73279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-mancos","tag-road-crash","tag-san-miguel-county","tag-telluride"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73279","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=73279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73279"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}