Two Colorado Springs Police Department officers were injured after a high-speed car chase on the evening of July 10th. According to the CSPD, police received a report of an attempted carjacking in northeast Colorado Springs. Soon after that initial carjacking attempt, a second carjacking report brought police to the Citadel Mall, where a crime victim informed the officers that his black Toyota 4Runner…
A crash on July 13th resulted in a power outage that affected over 23,000 Colorado Springs residents. According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, the collision occurred around 1 a.m. on the morning of Monday, July 13th, near the intersection of North Academy Boulevard and La Salle Street. Apparently, a southbound vehicle containing four adolescents traveling down Academy, went over the median in…
After a car accident, it is common for children to experience some form of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). The sudden forces of the accident, breaking glass, police sirens, and trauma can all replay in their memories after the crash. This can be extremely traumatic for young children, who may not have the words needed to express their feelings and their fears. Post-traumatic Stress…
A recent study done by AAA regarding fatal automobile collisions found that although most drivers worry about being in a fatal accident involving another driver—usually a head-on collision—in fact, most lethal accidents are solo crashes involving only one car. Most adult drivers (96 percent) fear they will be hit by a driver running a red light, a driver who is driving the wrong…
Fatalities for children age 12 and under due to an auto collision has decreased somewhat over the past ten years. That’s a very good thing. But surprisingly, there were still more than 9,000 children who died in a car collision during that same time period, according to the CDC. What is even more distressing, while the overall rate of children who were not…
Earlier this summer, a nine-year-old child died from injuries sustained in a tragic Colorado Springs accident. This fatal car accident is the 17th traffic fatality in Colorado Springs so far in 2017. The child was riding in a Ford Fusion when a Lincoln SUV hit the vehicle on Hwy 83. The child was not wearing a seat belt. Three other passengers were transported…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports a 10.4 percent increase in the number of traffic fatalities on U.S. roadways for the first six months of 2016. NHTSA reports 17,775 traffic fatalities for the first half of 2016, anticipating even more for the second half of the year due to seasonal and holiday travel. The surge in road deaths for the first part…
Most everyone is aware of the dangers of drinking and driving, but did you know that sleep-deprived drivers can be just as dangerous? The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety recently released a report showing just how dangerous driver fatigue can be. Wave Dreher, a spokeswoman for AAA Colorado says that drivers who haven’t had enough rest behave very similarly to drivers who have had…
Rollover accidents can be complicated due to the fact that forces aside from driver error may come into play and it can be necessary to make a definitive determination regarding the actual cause of the accident. The majority of rollover accidents happen in an SUV or a fifteen-passenger van because both of these vehicles have a very high center of gravity, making them…
According to a report from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, more and more researchers are examining the association between motor vehicle accidents and traumatic stress. An unfortunate consequence of the large volume of road traffic in the U.S. is the number of car accidents that result in personal injury and deaths. During any given year, approximately 1 percent of the nation’s population…
