Alcohol may be factor in Sunday's Main Hill crash

Alcohol may have been involved in a motorcycle and truck collision Sunday afternoon, which closed the main hill — N.M. 502 — for hours and sent one man to the hospital.

Los Alamos County Police and Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Departments responded to the incident at 3:59 p.m.

Santa Fe Sheriff’s Lt. Joe McLaughlin said the motorcyclist, Peter Padilla, 47, of El Prado, was heading southbound down the hill, lost control of the motorcycle and swerved into oncoming traffic around the bend at Anderson lookout. Los Alamos resident Rodney Dominguez, 44, who was driving a Toyota Tundra, was driving up the hill when he saw Padilla and swerved in an attempt to avoid hitting him, but the motorcyclist struck the left side of the truck.

Each vehicle sustained heavy damage.

McLaughlin said Padilla, who was not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, was airlifted to Christus St. Vincent hospital in Santa Fe with non-life threatening injuries including several bone fractures. Padilla is still a patient at the hospital. Dominguez and his family, who were also in the truck, were treated and released from Los Alamos Medical Center Sunday night, McLaughlin said.

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