Andrew C’de Baca, a cook at a pizza restaurant and living on the streets, was seriously injured in a hit and run accident earlier this month whilst crossing a street in Lower Downtown. According to police records, he is one of 174 people to be injured in Denver hit-and-runs this year, which is an increase […]

Two people have been seriously injured in a possible wrong-way crash in the HOV Lanes on Interstate 25. According to Colorado State Patrol, they received an alert to a wrong way driver and only six minutes later the crash happened at 12:41 p.m. in the HOV Lanes at I-25 and 62nd Avenue. The driver going […]

At congressional hearings on Thursday, a National Traffic Highway Safety Administration study on Colorado fatalities from 2007-2012 due out in January was top of the agenda. Republican John Fleming of Luisiana said that although the number of fatalities overall was down in Colorado, marijuana linked fatalities had increased by 100 percent. Medical marijuana was commercialized […]

On Monday morning at around 2.30 a.m. seven people were injured when a sports utility vehicle ran a red light in Denver. According to Lt. Robert Rock from the Denver police traffic investigation unit, a 1993 Ford Explorer was speeding as it traveled eastbound on Colfax and went straight over the light, crashing into a […]

Last Saturday, at around 10.00 a.m. for some as yet unknown reason a Chevrolet Tahoe was driving on the wrong side of Colorado Boulevard and then mounted the sidewalk, narrowly missed a fire hydrant and a lamp post, and then crashed into a building on the northwest corner of Colorado and East Amherst Avenue. Accent […]

According to a recent research program by the University of Colorado at Denver, if there is more bike traffic on the road, there are fewer traffic collisions. The research team found that the rate of collisions was lower at those intersections where there were more than 200 cyclists per day. They concluded that if drivers […]

Drugged Driving Columbia University researchers have recently found out that there are more and more vehicle accident deaths due to the fact that the driver was high on marijuana. The actual number of deaths due to drugged driving has tripled over the last decade. What is more, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have carried […]

According to a new study by the CDC, deaths due to alcohol abuse in 2006 cost the United States $224 billion. The deaths were not only due to long term effects of abuse, such as heart and liver disease, but also one off events in which too much alcohol was the main contributory factor. These […]

With the recent legalization of marijuana in the state of Colorado, authorities are increasingly becoming concerned about the possibilities of a jump in fatal automobile accidents in the state. Particularly, young people using marijuana and then getting behind the wheel of an automobile has the potential to cause serious consequences for all of those who […]

After years of public service announcements and aggressive public education campaigns aimed at lowering the number of drunk driving incidences across the country, the United States continues to see people drive drunk. In fact, many of the most serious car accidents which occur in Denver are the result of drunk drivers. Victims of these drunk […]