September is National Child Passenger Safety Month. Video highlights safer installation. According to the NHTSA, motor vehicle crashes were the leading cause of death for children ages 4 to 14. In 2011, there were 171,000 children age 14 and younger injured in motor vehicle-related crashes. On average, three children age 14 and younger were killed […]

  9 News reports on a fatal pedestrian accident near Exposition and Havana. This is one more in what has become a rash of pedestrian accidents in the Denver Metro area this year. The 143 pedestrian collisions worked by the Denver Police Department in the first four months of 2013 represents more than a 20% […]

  One woman died and three were injured in a collision with a semi-truck on I-70 near Glenwood Canyon, according to CBS Denver. The car apparently crossed the center line and hit the semi head-on. The driver was killed, and the three passengers, a man, a woman, and a child, were transported to Vail Valley […]

  7 News reports on a 3-alarm fire that burned several units in an apartment building in fort Collins. The Buffalo Run Apartments, at Lincoln Avenue and Lemay Avenue were damaged in a fire that was first reported just before 4:00 in the morning. Poudre Fire Authority Captain Patrick Love says that no injuries have […]

The widow of a man killed in an avalanche inside Winter Park ski area is suing the ski area’s owner, according to a report in the Denver Post. The man died on January 22 of this year, after being buried under three feet of snow by an avalanche. By the time he was found at […]

9 News has reported on the participation of students at Bennett High School in the “Every Fifteen Minutes” program. The program is named for the assertion that every fifteen minutes, someone in the United States is killed by a drunk-driver in the United States. Bennett High School students, as part of this program, participated in […]

KDVR.com is reporting that two men are dead and a young boy is in critical condition after a man in a Toyota pick-up struck them from behind while they were walking in Thornton, Colorado on Saturday. According to reports, the driver is 33-year-old Michael Grennan of Loveland, Colorado. Grennan has previous arrests including DUI. The […]

According to CBS News, a motorcycle crash ended tragically in Aurora over the weekend. The accident occurred Saturday evening on Iliff Avenue near Interstate 225. Police officials claimed that they received a called reporting two motorcycles driving recklessly by speeding and driving along the shoulder to pass cars along I-225. Before police cars could get […]

According to 9 News, a recent report indicates that tragic teenage fatalities due to car accidents are steadily increasing. The Governors Highway Safety Association researched the deaths of 16 and 17year old drivers through the first six month period of 2011 and discovered an 11 percent increase over the previous year. This increase is believed […]