Automobile Accidents

• State Patrol Targets Tailgaters

  Staff Writer | July 06, 2006 9:36 AM | 0 CommentsColorado Springs, CO

  The Colorado Springs Gazette reported on the continued efforts by the Colorado State Patrol to reduce motor vehicle accidents by using a new technology to identify tailgaters. A new radar gun has the capability not only to identify driving speed but to also detect the space between two cars. In Colorado, the tailgating law is that drivers must leave one car length for every 10 miles per hour....

• Van Hits Four Coronado Students

  Shannon Weidemann | September 22, 2007 1:19 PM | 0 CommentsColorado Springs, CO

  A parent was dropping her child off at Coronado Springs High School when she hit four other students with her van. The pedestrian accident happened Friday morning on Fillmore Street. The students were between the ages of 14 and 16. The parent was turning left at the light," Naleski said. "The students were in the crosswalk. The parent said she was blinded by sun glare and didn't see the...

• 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...

• 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...

• ICE numbers could save lives in accidents

  Staff Writer | November 18, 2006 5:02 PM | 0 CommentsColorado Springs, CO

  ICE, or "In Case of Emergency" numbers programmed into cell phones can help save lives when someone is injured in a motor vehicle accident or other circumstance. An article in Colorado Springs' FOX 21 News Online highlights a recent push for more people to program their ICE numbers into their phones.From fires to car accidents, every second counts and emergency responders must quickly find the...