In 2007, Shea Lehnen lost her unborn child in a car accident involving a Colorado State Trooper and a high speed chase. Tim Ciesco of NBC 11 News gives us a thumbnail of the incident: Keith Killian, the Lehnens’ attorney, says the trooper was trying to pull over the Jeep for speeding when he initiated [...]
Last Thursday, Highway 139 was the site of a fatal car crash near the mile marker 34. Traffic was closed going both ways for several hours due to the efforts of the search and rescue team. Tim Ciesco, a reporter for NBC 11 News, brings us a condensed account of the auto accident: Colorado State [...]
In one of the classic movie scenarios for an auto accident, the car rolls over several times. Unfortunately, part of the reason for this is that it does happen in real life, and not as infrequently as some might think. Sadly, when a rollover crash happened on Highway 50 on August 17, a life was lost. Kelly [...]
The Colorado State Patrol vehicle-pursuit policies are undergoing judicial scrutiny this coming April, when a Mesa County judge will rule on whether a wrongful death lawsuit against the CSP can move forward. Chief Judge David Bottger has scheduled a four-day hearing starting April 11 in a lawsuit filed by Shea and Sean Lehnen of Collbran. [...]
In an unfortunate symmetry of events, a rollover truck accident near the west entrance of the Colorado National Monument took the life of John Luther Fulmer III last Thursday. Less than two years earlier, his son John Luther Fulmer IV also died in an auto accident. One distinction between the two fatal accidents was that Fulmer [...]
Last Sunday, I-70 just outside Glenwood Springs, Colorado was the scene of a heart-wrenching rollover car accident that resulted in the death of a child — a one year-old boy named Isaac. According to Mike Wiggins of The Daily Sentinel: Isaac Alessandro was pronounced dead at the scene of the rollover, which happened about 6:30 a.m. along westbound [...]
On the Colorado Accident Law Blog, we talk about about distracted driving and driving under the influence (DUI) a lot. One thing we haven’t yet touched on is driving while extremely tired, which in many ways is similar to driving drunk — reaction time is slowed, attention can drift, and passing out behind the wheel [...]
Colorado State Police were trying to pull over a Dodge pickup Monday night for driving without headlights and possible DUI, when the Dodge crashed into another vehicle, killing its driver. Amy Hamilton, a reporter for The Daily Sentinel, reports the details: Rebekah J. King was killed in the crash on F Road east of 29 1/2 [...]
Car accidents have the potential to snowball rapidly — especially on the highway. Sunday morning, a sedan driving eastbound on I-70 in Colorado started a frightening domino effect when it collided with a semi. Four vehicles on both sides of the highway were involved in the accident just outside Fruita, Colorado. Paul Shockley, a reporter [...]
Another motorcyclist is no longer with us after a motorcycle accident last Monday near the Colorado-Utah border. The unnamed motorcyclist from Indiana lost control while taking a curve on Douglas Pass (Grand Junction, Garfield County, Colorado), injuring two other motorcyclists in the oncoming lane and losing his own life. Paul Shockley of The Daily Sentinel provides [...]
