Automobile Accidents

• More cars collide with wildlife

  Staff Writer | January 19, 2007 11:18 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  Check out an interesting article in The Coloradoan out of Fort Collins today addressing the increasing numbers of wildlife-related motor vehicle accidents. The article estimates that more than 1.5 million wildlife-vehicle accidents occur nationally each year, and cause 161 human fatalities. In Colorado alone, these wildlife accidents have increased about 300 percent in the last 10 years. Fall is...

• 2006 Summit County car crashes totaled 687

  Staff Writer | January 19, 2007 10:09 AM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO

  An interesting article appeared yesterday in the Summit Daily News, detailing new statistics released by the Colorado State patrol about motor vehicle accidents in Summit County. While accidents that cause fatalities and injuries are decreasing, crashes related to DUI are increasing. Nearly half, or 330, of the 687 accidents in Summit County in 2006 resulted from drivers exceeding the speed...

• Should cell phone use while driving be banned?

  Staff Writer | January 18, 2007 2:40 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  An interesting AP article yesterday addresses the increasing numbers of motor vehicle accidents resulting from cellular phone usage. Colorado State Troopers are now asking people involved in crashes whether they were using cellular phones at the time. These troopers may be able to gather enough evidence to argue for a legal ban on cell phone usage while driving. Beginning January 1, troopers now...

• Text-Messaging Causing Car Accidents

  Staff Writer | January 17, 2007 7:50 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  State troopers say cell phone text messaging is causing more accidents than ever before. The problem is that while it's easy to spot people talking at the wheel, it is much harder to catch people texting at the wheel. Troopersare convinced cell phone use is causing wrecks, but drivers never admit to it. Trooper Lonnie Haschell sees drivers do it, but he can't stop them. "Unless there is...

• Motorist Crashes on Satellite Navigation Command

  Staff Writer | January 16, 2007 6:04 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  A 46-year-old German motorist driving along a busy road suddenly veered to the left and ended up stuck on a railway track because his satellite navigation system told him to, police said on Sunday. The motorist was heading into the north German city of Bremen "when the friendly voice from his satnav told him to turn left," a spokesman said. "He did what he was ordered to do and turned his Audi...

• Snow storms bring mess of accidents

  Staff Writer | January 15, 2007 2:09 PM | 0 CommentsColorado Springs, CO

  Since early Sunday morning, snowfall has brought a mess of motor vehicle accidents to the Fort Collins area, along with many other parts of Colorado.An article from The Coloradoan reports on a number of accidents that fortunately did not result in any fatalities.Apparently Colorado State Troopers responded to more than 20 accident calls by 2 p.m. on Sunday. Some of the accidents were SUV...

• Avalanche buries cars on major roadway

  Staff Writer | January 10, 2007 2:20 PM | 0 CommentsColorado Springs, CO

  On January 6 a major avalanche buried cars and motorists on US-40, about 60 miles west of Denver in close proximity to Winter Park ski resort area. On a major traffic day for skiiers going to and from Winter Park, many cars were buried in what one Denver official said was the largest avalanche in Colorado history.Fortunately, the Colorado Department of Transportation and rescue workers did an...

• Avalanche near Winter Park buries vehicles

  Staff Writer | January 09, 2007 2:27 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO

  A number of motor vehicles were buried with people in them Saturday in what a Denver official called Colorado's largest avalanche in history. The mammoth accident on US-40, just 60 miles to the west of Denver, amazingly resulted in no injuries or deaths. The rescue efforts began just after the avalanche hit at 10:30 a.m. Everyone trapped in their vehicles was successfully rescued because of the...

• Move over law improves safety on side of road

  Staff Writer | December 18, 2006 4:17 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO

  Colorado law enforcement officials and emergency personnel risk their lives every day when they're pulled over on the side of the road to clock speeders or help people. That's why Governor Bill Ownes and the state legislature passed the "move over law" two years ago.The law says that motorists must move vehicles over a lane when passing emergency personnel or police on the side of the road. This...

• First-hand accounts of seatbelts saving lives

  Staff Writer | December 18, 2006 3:45 PM | 0 CommentsColorado Springs, CO

  An article from Schreiver Air Force Base's Web site gives two accounts of airmen surviving terrible motor vehicle accidents recently because they were wearing seatbelts. An Army NCO assigned to North American Aerospace Defense Command headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., was involved in a multiple-vehicle pile-up Nov. 12 on Interstate 70 in Denver, according to an article that ran on...