A couple weeks ago, I wrote about a truck accident that leaked seven thousand gallons of gas and risked contaminating the Denver water supply. Today, I’m writing about another accident with environmental reprecussions. A fatal car accident this past Saturday caused a three-square-mile wildfire in Baca County. KKTV gives us this summary: Colorado State Patrol says [...]
It’s been dry. Not only has rain been absent, but temperatures have been increasing, as well. In Colorado, that means the dangerous potential for wildfires. Keith Coffman, a reporter for Reuters, describes a recent wildfire in a piece syndicated on CBS 6: An out-of-control wildfire has charred 2,000 acres, destroyed at least one house and [...]
A small plane crash at Colorado Springs Airport, on December 22nd, took the lives of Air Force graduate Martin Anthony Riggan and his wife Nicole. The fatal crash occurred as they were making their second landing attempt. A preliminary report about the accident has been released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Barrett Tryon, digital content director for KRDO [...]
Car accidents have an endless array of causes, from the predictable — such as intoxication, smart phone use, and poor road conditions — to the flat-out bizarre. One example of the less conventional road disturbance occurred on I-25 near Pueblo, CO last November. Golf balls, of all things, were involved. Jason Aubrey, a reporter for [...]
People are injured in accidents every day. Sometimes they are just that: accidents. Sometimes they occur due to the negligence of another. Your experiences in the wake of an accident can be overwhelming, particularly if the accident results in extreme trauma. (This is one reason Colorado accident lawyer Dan Rosen has his practice: receiving a [...]
With Colorado driving conditions becoming more and more icy, the potential for rollover accidents increases drastically. Over the past two and a half weeks, a rash of rollover crashes have occurred throughout Colorado: * On the first of December a woman was thrown from her vehicle in a rollover on Interstate 25 in Broomfield, CO. [...]
The season of sub-freezing temperatures is upon us, with all it brings for drivers and road conditions. Snow, ice and periodically obscured visibility make winter a complicated time to drive in Colorado. Add poor road conditions to the everyday driving hazards like distracted drivingcar, alcohol, drugs, etc, and you have the potential for more and [...]
When you think of car accidents, you usually think of two or three cars at most, unless you’re thinking of a Hollywood action scene. Every once in awhile, however, there is one of those unbelievable multiple-vehicle collisions that could have jumped right from the silver screen. I-25 north of Monument Hill, Colorado was the site of one [...]
Last Sunday, at about 11:20 AM, a Colorado City family suffered a tragic car accident on I-25 just south of Pueblo, Colorado. State troopers have issued statements that a Chrysler Town and Country minivan carrying a married couple and their four children was traveling northbound on I-25 when the driver drifted into the center median. The [...]
Motor vehicle accidents usually involve a car or a truck hitting another car/truck/motorcycle, or a pedestrian. Not this time. This time, the accident I am writing about involves a car hitting a house. Two houses, if reports are to be credited. Just before 2 a.m. in the Colorado Springs neighborhood around the 4600 Block of [...]
