Sometimes, people don’t die right away despite being badly injured in a car crash. They may recover enough to leave the hospital but have further medical treatments or surgeries needed in the future. This becomes complicated when someone has complications that may...
To be legally drunk in Colorado, you have to drink enough alcohol to raise your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 0.08%. For the state to charge someone with an impaired driving offense, they will need to exceed that limit or demonstrate visible impairment to their...
If you are driving your vehicle and begin to feel unwell, you may think that you’ll just drive a few more minutes to get home or to your destination and then pull over and park. If feeling unwell suddenly turns into passing out, having a seizure, a heart attack or...
If you have lost a loved one to a drowsy driver, then you know how serious this issue is. Drowsy driving takes around 1,500 lives annually. Did you know that a shocking 40% of drivers have admitted to falling asleep while driving at least once in their lives? Thinking...
Pets in vehicles cause crashes, but Colorado doesn’t require restraints. Unfortunately, that means that there may be many drivers on the road who have pets walking around the vehicles while they’re driving. It might mean that a driver has a pet on their lap or holding...
You glide to a stop at an intersection because the light is red or it's a four-way stop. You look over at the vehicle in the lane next to you or across the intersection and clearly see someone typing into their phone while stopped. Your first reaction to that might...
In a car crash, the impact and sudden deceleration of your vehicle can result in significant injuries. Among them are a couple different spinal injuries that could put you at risk of a spinal cord injury. Some of those injuries include spinal fractures and disc...
Most motorists summon police to the scene after they have an accident. They do so to allow police to document what happened and to help facilitate the exchange of information. If you've ever passed a pretty catastrophic accident before, then you may have noticed law...
It’s normal, to some degree, to see people trying to “beat” red lights by speeding up to get through an intersection or area where a light has just turned yellow. Unfortunately, this is dangerous. They could hit someone and cause a serious, or potentially fatal,...
An alleged impaired driver in Colorado has been arrested after getting involved in a serious two-car accident. That driver is facing numerous charges for their role in the accident, but reports show that at least one of those charges is for operating their car under...