Crews cleanup fatal accident on US 550 at NM/Colo. border
Posted at: 09/02/2012 11:23 AM
| Updated at: 09/02/2012 8:33 PM
By: Shaun Griswold, KOB.com
TWO PEOPLE DIED IN A MOTORCYCLE CRASH IN THE FOUR CORNERS TODAY.
IT HAPPENED ON U-S 5-50 AT MILE MARKER 166 - THAT'S NEAR THE COLORADO-NEW MEXICO STATE LINE.
POLICE TELL US 78-YEAR-OLD DAVID HUTCHISON WAS DRIVING AN S-U-V WHEN HE TURNED ONTO THE HIGHWAY AND HIT TWO OUT OF THREE MOTORCYCLISTS. HUTCHISON DIED.
POLICE SAY ONE MOTORCYCLIST...43-YEAR-OLD MICHAEL SHOCKLEY FROM LOUISIANA ALSO DIED. THE TWO OTHER MOTORCYCLISTS AND A PASSENGER IN THE VEHICLE HAD NON-LIFE THREATENING INJURIES.
POLICE DON'T BELIEVE ALCOHOL WAS A FACTOR.
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