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 [...]
I see a lot of reports on motor vehicle accidents in my research for this blog. One thing that still surprises me is the number of those caused by someone driving the wrong way down a street or highway. As a matter of fact, this type of accident is gaining national attention due to its [...]
What causes more teen fatalities than cancer, suicide, and homicide combined? Motor vehicle accidents. Don’t believe it? Here is the pertinent quote from a recent, unattributed article in New Jersey Today: ‘More teenagers die from car crashes than from cancer, homicide, and suicide combined,’ reports Michael Rosen, MD, director of the Pediatric Emergency Department at [...]
While we may not have gotten to the level of George Jetson and the flying car, there is still some amazing technology in modern motor vehicles, including some fascinating advances designed to help prevent car accidents. David Lewis, a writer for Rhino Car Hire, talks about some of these new technologies in a recent blog [...]
Last Thursday, a Denver school bus was involved in a minor accident at Colorado Boulevard and 29th Avenue at approximately 4:30 PM. According to reports, the bus struck a minivan. Of the 29 children aboard the vehicle during the collision, almost a quarter were injured. CBS 4 Denver reports on the status of the children: [...]
A 2005 motor vehicle accident on an icy Colorado road is the source of a $32 million award made last week by an El Paso court. One of the highest awards in El Paso history, it is also the 12th largest made in the U.S. this year. Ramon Bracamontes, a reporter for the El Paso [...]
It’s time for an update on that school bus accident I wrote about a few days ago, the one that has resulted in 12 injuries. At about 9:30 p.m. last Tuesday, on U.S. Highway 24 near Ellicott Highway, a school bus full of 7th- and 8th-grade basketball players and their coaching staff allegedly crashed on [...]
Tuesday night, a school bus full of middle school students crashed and ended up in a ditch. The passengers, a team of middle school basketball players and their coaches, seem to have escaped serious injuries despite a third of them being taken to the hospital. Jeffrey Wolf, a reporter for Fox 31, brings us the [...]
The case of the wealth manager from Morgan Stanley who hit a cyclist and left the scene of the accident is burning up the blogosphere and turning up on mainstream media both here and abroad. It’s not the accident itself that is under the spotlight, but rather the decision by the prosecutors to drop the felony charges [...]
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 [...]
