Tag: crash
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Victims identified from 2 fatal Pueblo County highway crashes
Two victims involved in crashes on Colorado 165 and Colorado 50 were identified as 36-year-old Crystal M. Case and 46-year-old Robert J. Hepler, the Pueblo County Coroner’s Office announced Monday. Colorado State Patrol is investigating both Saturday evening crashes and no cause has been determined as of Monday, the agency said. Hepler is believed to…
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Driver crashes into Colorado Springs police car on I-25
A motorist crashed into an unoccupied Colorado Springs police cruiser on Interstate 25 early Sunday, according to an online blotter entry. The collision took place just after 5 a.m. in the southbound lanes of the interstate, just north of the South Nevada Avenue exit, officials said. While investigating a prior two-car collision, officers had positioned…
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Motorcyclist dies in crash along Fillmore Street
A motorcyclist was struck and killed near the intersection of East Fillmore Street and North Prospect Street on Monday morning, according to a blotter entry by Colorado Springs police. A truck eastbound on Fillmore was making an “unprotected left turn” into a parking lot when it hit the westbound motorcyclist, who was pronounced deceased at…
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Habitual offender, teenager arrested in alleged racing crash that killed Colorado Springs woman
Two men accused of illegal street racing will face multiple charges after a crash on the city’s north side left one woman dead on March 22, according to a news release Friday from Colorado Springs police. Jerome Archer, 48, and Leeanaya Joey Martinez, 18, were allegedly racing on Briargate Boulevard when one vehicle entered oncoming…
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Death of Pueblo teen found in crash ruled homicide
Pueblo County Coroner Gregory Grahek ruled the death of a 15-year-old who was found deceased after a crash in Pueblo on Sunday was a homicide, according to a news release by police. Police discovered the teenager in the driver’s seat around 4:30 p.m. near the intersection of Summit Avenue and Routt Avenue, where the single-vehicle…
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80-year-old ID’d as victim of fatal Union Boulevard crash
Colorado Springs police identified the victim of a crash near Union Boulevard and Parkside Drive earlier this month as 80-year-old Paul Montoya, according to a news release by police. Montoya’s northbound vehicle was hit in the right through lane of the intersection around 10 a.m. on May 8 after a vehicle attempted to turn left…
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Rider identified in fatal Colorado Springs crash that critically injured 4 others
Police on Wednesday released the identity of the motorcyclist killed in a crash on South Nevada Avenue that also injured four others earlier in May. The Colorado Springs Police Department found Jason Mullet, 43, dead near the 1600 block of South Nevada Avenue on May 17 at 12:20 a.m. after he collided with a car…
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Motorcyclist killed in crash off North Circle Drive identified
The Colorado Springs Police Department has released the identity of a motorcyclist who died after striking a guardrail off North Circle Drive in mid-May. John Ruhe, 33, was killed in the single-vehicle crash off North Circle Drive and East Van Buren Street on May 16 just before 1 a.m. Investigators determined that Ruhe was driving…
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Rollover crash in Pueblo kills 34-year-old
Danny J. Trujillo, 34, was identified as the victim of a fatal rollover crash in Pueblo on Saturday, the county’s coroner’s office announced. Officers responded to the crash around 10 p.m. near the intersection of Abriendo Avenue and Quincy Street, finding a rolled-over Chevy Blazer. Trujillo was found ejected from the vehicle and pronounced deceased…
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15-year-old identified as victim of fatal Pueblo crash
A single-vehicle crash in Pueblo on Sunday afternoon resulted in the death of a 15-year-old and three others being injured with non-life-threatening injuries, the Pueblo Police Department announced in a news release. Police found the 15-year-old in the driver’s seat at the site of the crash near the intersection of Summit Avenue and Routt Avenue.…