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 […]
Study: More Cyclists Equals Fewer Accidents
July 13, 2014 By
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 […]
Legalizing marijuana could lead to more deaths
July 6, 2014 By
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 […]
Americans are Paying the Price for Excessive Drinking
June 29, 2014 By
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 […]
Authorities Note Uptick in Drugged Driving
June 22, 2014 By
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 […]
Holding Restaurants, Bars, and Clubs Responsible for DUI Injury
June 15, 2014 By
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 […]
Baby Proofing Your Denver Home
June 8, 2014 By
Everyone has heard that fatal accidents are most likely to occur in the home. This statistic is unfortunately true, as statistics indicate that one person is killed in a home based accident every 16 minutes. The most vulnerable among us, babies and infants, are also the most prone to suffering a catastrophic accidents. Every parent […]
How to Handle Brake Failure in Denver -video-
June 1, 2014 By
Of all the nightmare scenarios a driver may face, losing power to your brakes may be the most frightening. Drivers use their brakes so frequently that the thought of the brakes not working is almost unthinkable. But, such situations do happen on Denver roads, so it is best to be prepared in case this situation […]
Drunk Driving Death Results in 10 Year Sentence
May 25, 2014 By
A woman was sentenced to prison Friday, as a result of a drunk driving accident which killed a Denver driver. Rebecca Maez was charged with vehicular homicide and vehicular assault as a result of an August 2013 accident in which she drove the wrong direction in an HOV lane, causing an accident which killed a […]
Small Airplane Crashes into Denver Area Home
May 8, 2014 By
The pilot of a small plane survived a terrible accident this week, as his aircraft crashed into a Denver area home. According to the Federal Aviation Administration on May 5 at about 5:30 pm, a Piper PA-25 Pawnee was towing a banner over Northglenn, Colorado when it began to go down. Due to mechanical problems […]
