Rylie Carbonneau, 7, was riding his tricycle near his home when a speeding truck hit him. Witnesses say the truck may have run a stop sign. The truck dragged him for nearly 50 feet before coming to a stop. Carbonneau broke both of his legs in the car accident. Doctors were unable to repair one… read more
Two women were crossing a five-lane road. One of them was pushing her child a stroller. An SUV came around the corner and was not able to stop in time. Both women died in the accident, and the child in the stroller sustained injuries. The accident happened around 8 am, and many witnesses saw the… read more
Wet roads are partly to blame for a Colorado Springs car accident that involved a pickup truck and a minivan. As a light rain fell, the pickup truck lost control and veered into the opposite lane, striking a minivan carrying three family members. One of the two children riding in the van was ejected through… read more
Wil Craig was 17 years old when he suffered a traumatic brain injury. He was riding in a friend’s car. The friend was texting while driving, and she crashed the car into a tree. She was driving 120 MPH at the time, and she had only gotten six letters into her message: it said “Where… read more
Actress Lindsay Lohan found herself in hot water earlier this month when she allegedly fled the scene of a car accident. According to TMZ, Lohan was driving her Porsche in downtown Manhattan when she hit a pedestrian in his 30s as she pulled into a hotel parking structure. This could cause problems for the actress… read more
Vladimir Zhukov, a 66-year-old truck driver from Illinois, was heading west on I-80 through Nebraska when his truck stalled. When he stopped to fix his truck around 4:30 am, it started a chain reaction of car accidents that killed five people. Minnesota truck driver Keith Johnson, 27, crashed his semi-truck into Zhukov’s stalled truck. Johnson… read more
Colorado’s “100 Days of Heat” ended on Labor Day. Since drunk driving is a serious problem in our state and throughout the country, officials hoped to crack down on drunk drivers throughout the summer. Nationwide, 10,228 people died in alcohol-related car accidents in 2010, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Here are some… read more
Each year, Allstate releases a list of the 200 cities in America with the safest drivers. This year, four Colorado cities made the list, with Fort Collins coming in third overall. Fort Collins was ranked number two between 2006 and 2009, and number one for the past two years. Compared to the rest of the… read more
Miraculously, the two drivers inside that car – Jeremy Foley and Yuri Kouznetsov – survived the above rollover accident at this year’s Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, held on Sunday, August 12. The video went viral with over two million views. Foley said on this Facebook page that he and Kouznetsov were “a little beaten… read more
On Monday we discussed a motorcycle accident in which an SUV pulled in front of a biker. Without any time to react, the biker collided with the vehicle. When the biker regained consciousness, the SUV was gone. If caught, the driver could face severe consequences. In June of 2012, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper passed a… read more
