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Four Motorcycles Crash, Kills Three

September 27, 2005

Three people are dead and others have been left injured in four motorcycle accidents across Colorado over the weekend.

A woman riding on the back of a motorcycle was killed while the driver, Jody Evers, was seriously injured in a chain-reaction collision that involved three motorcycles, a motor home and a sport-utility vehicle Sunday on a narrow mountain road north of Lyons.

On Sunday, police in Aurora retrieved the body of Ricky Selanders, 38, who was dead after his motorcycle shot off a roadway.

On Saturday, Charles Byron Shilling, 39, of Grand Junction was killed after a car pulled in front of his motorcycle while driving on Interstate 70.

Patricia Loftus, 52, of Colorado Springs was listed in critical condition after she was involved in a head-on collision with another motorcycle in Jefferson County on Sunday.

Loftus was put on life support possibly a result of not wearing a helmet. The other driver, Richard Kirkpatrick, 24, of Aurora, who was wearing a helmet, only suffered minor injuries.

In the crash near Lyons, Albert Alcorn was driving his motorcycle westbound alongside another rider about two miles north of town and about 35 miles northwest of Denver when he drifted across the centerline, sideswiped a motor home and the tipped over, according to State Troopers.

Alcorn, 54, of Littleton only sustained minor injuries, but Evers' tried to avoid Alcorn, swerved, and tipped. Evers, 45, of Thornton and the unidentified female passenger were thrown from the motorcycle, and the woman was struck by an SUV traveling the oncoming lane and died at the scene.

A third bike was also involved in the accident but the driver and passenger suffered only minor injuries.

Investigators said none of the motorcyclists in the Lyons crash was wearing a helmet.

Alcorn is responding to charges of careless driving causing death.

Investigators do not think alcohol was a factor.