When high school students went back to school this year, the Colorado Department of Transportation decided to help them stay a little safer behind the wheel. The CDOT launched a public awareness campaign to educate teens about driving safety. This campaign is called “Keep Your License Safe.” It aims to remind teens about the dangers of driving and help them use safer driving…
In Colorado Springs, residents are right to worry about pedestrian safety. In recent years, pedestrian accidents are on the rise, especially in certain areas of the city. The Colorado Springs Police Department believe that this increase in pedestrian accidents is the fault of both drivers and pedestrians, who are simply not looking out for one another. Drivers in Colorado Springs don’t pay close…
In the United States, more than 33,000 people lose their lives in car accidents. If you are under the age of 55, the CDC reports that you are more likely to die in a car accident than anything else. So how can you protect yourself from suffering harm in a car accident this year? It turns out – the kind of car you…
A recent investigation found that some cars with keyless ignitions are at an increased risk of getting into a rollaway accident. These accidents occur when the driver isn’t in the car and can injure and kill people who happen to be in its path. One such instance occurred last month when a 2017 Range Rover HSE started moving backward after it was started…
Since 1975, car safety features have improved greatly. Those safety features, coupled with improvements in car seats and booster seats, have resulted in a steady decline in child motor vehicle fatalities. Unfortunately, car accidents still cause 1 out of every 4 unintentional injury deaths in children under the age of 13. In fact, car accidents are STILL the leading cause of death among…
After a car accident in Colorado Springs, you might feel stiff and sore. This is true even if your accident occurred at relatively low speeds. Unfortunately, it doesn’t take much to throw your back or neck out of alignment. This can result in a painful injury that can easily become a chronic injury if you are not careful. For this reason, accident victims…
The Click It or Ticket campaign starts on May 24th and will run through June 6th, so drivers should expect to see an increased law enforcement presence, as agencies around the state step up their efforts to cite drivers and passengers who are not buckled up. Click It or Ticket is national campaign spearheaded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, that has…
Earlier this month, five traffic accident fatalities occurred over just a two day period, in the Colorado Springs area. The first accident was a harrowing incident involving an allegedly stolen bus that was in a destructive crash on Highway 83, on the morning of Thursday, November 5th. According to the Colorado State Patrol, a 20-year-old male named Daihauonzadre Brooks-Jones stole a bus from…
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 DUI collision in Colorado Springs earlier in July, resulted in two people being seriously injured. According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, the crash occurred on South Circle Drive around 8:30 p.m. on the evening of Sunday, July 5th, and involved only a single vehicle. Apparently, a Chevrolet sedan was traveling the wrong direction in the oncoming lane of traffic, when it…
