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 driving ability.  However, drivers with a much lower BAC than the state limit could still cause serious crashes. Sometimes, these drivers are particularly sensitive to alcohol, meaning they experience impairment at a BAC below the…

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 another medical emergency, then you may not have control over what happens next. Causing a collision due to a medical emergency is bad enough, but it is also likely that…

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 about that fact, it’s reasonable to assume that many unnecessary accidents occur just because a driver hasn’t gotten enough sleep, has a medical condition impacting their alertness or is drowsy for…

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 its head out the window when they’re on their way to work or home. Even though there is no law prohibiting pets from being in vehicles without safety restraints, Colorado law does require drivers…

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 be to think that the driver is responsible. After all, instead of texting while actively driving, they waited till they stopped their car. However, although it may not seem like…