Where have our manners gone? Our roads could be so much safer if we all treated other drivers how we would like to be treated.
The terms “ordinary negligence” and “gross negligence” frequently appear in discussions of legal matters. Many people do not understand that there is a distinction between the two terms. Negligence is the failure to use the level of care and caution that an ordinary person would use in similar circumstances. It often involves a careless mistake or inattention that causes an injury.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers told multiple media sources that one customer wrangled the gun away from the shooter and hit him with it. A lone suspect, Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, was subdued at the club, taken into custody and transported to a local hospital to be treated for unspecified injuries two minutes after officers arrived, Vasquez said. The suspect remains in the hospital and it is unknown when he will be released, authorities said. The gunman entered the club and "immediately started shooting at people, as he moved farther inside," Vasquez said. Two Club Q bartenders are among the five victims killed, according to a co-worker and social media posts. Daniel Davis Aston and Derrick Rump, also a co-owner of the bar, were fatally shot. Officers found two firearms at the scene and are working to identify who the guns belong to, he said. However, Vasquez said the suspect…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A car driving the wrong way crashed into a pickup truck Sunday on Interstate 25 in Colorado Springs, killing one person and seriously injuring two others, according to Gazette news partner KKTV. The crash occurred around 1 a.m. near South Academy Boulevard, and the person who died in the crash was a 43-year-old man from Colorado Springs, the TV station reported. Authorities have identified the man but aren't releasing his name until they notify his family. A man and woman, both 30, were injured in the crash and taken to the hospital, where they were listed in serious condition. Investigators said they believe that the driver of the car that was driving the wrong way might have been drinking. If you are seriously injured in Colorado Springs, Colorado, due to someone else’s carelessness, contact our Colorado Springs personal injury lawyer at at our firm. If your injury isn’t through any…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Michael Clark, the 76-year old who sued Idaho Springs Colorado and three of the city’s police officers after one of them fired a Taser at him without warning and placed a knee on the back of his neck while he lay unconscious, settled his lawsuit for $7 million, his attorney announced Wednesday. The settlement is the largest in Colorado history for a civil rights case that did not involve a wrongful death, Clark’s attorney Sarah Schielke said. Clark suffered medical complications after being shocked with the Taser that made him unable to live independently, Schielke said at a news conference. He lived an active and independent life before the 2021 assault but now can no longer cook and uses a wheelchair. Based on what we know, on May 30, 2021, Hanning and Summers knocked on Clark’s door without announcing themselves after a neighbor reported he had punched her in the…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]One teenager was killed and two others wounded in a shooting at a house party in Adams County early Sunday morning, according to the sheriff’s office. The shooting was reported at about 1:30 a.m. at a home in the 100 block of E. 70th Avenue, Sgt. Adam Sherman said Sunday. Officers arrived to find three people shot. Two victims were 18 years old and one was 17, Sherman said. They have not been publicly identified. Two victims were taken by ambulance to hospitals, where one died. The third person who was shot was treated at the scene for minor injuries and released, according to the sheriff’s office. It was not clear Sunday exactly how the shooting unfolded, but Sherman said the attack was not a drive-by shooting and was likely carried out by someone at the party or who walked up to the party. Sunday’s shooting happened several miles away…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A lawsuit filed in El Paso County last week alleges that a Colorado Springs police officer pepper sprayed a 17-year-old girl twice while she was handcuffed in the backseat of a police car. The lawsuit alleges that on Oct. 17, 2020, Amara Keens-Dumas was approached by officers Ryan Yoshimiya and Brianna Ragsdale around 3 a.m. after someone told police that Keens-Dumas had gotten into a verbal altercation with her boyfriend. Officers responded to the scene but were asked by Keens-Dumas' brother to leave. But 45 minutes later the officers returned to the house when Keens-Dumas began crying in the street, the lawsuit states. The lawsuit states that two officers handcuffed Keens-Dumas and forced her against the side of their police vehicle. When Yoshimiya touched her leg, despite Keens-Dumas asking him not to, it triggered a "trauma response" because she was a victim of rape, something her brother had told officers…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Two people died on Interstate 25 in Douglas County when they were hit by an alleged DUI driver, according to the Colorado State Patrol. About 10:30 p.m. Wednesday a trooper responded to assist a motorist who was having “vehicle trouble” on northbound Interstate 25 near Castle Rock, according to a news release. Four people were in the vehicle, which was missing a tire and was parked on the shoulder. There were two people who were outside of the disabled vehicle were instructed by the trooper to “return to their vehicle and get back inside as a safety precaution,” the release said. The trooper was walking away from the two people heading towards his cruiser when a 'random car took over the shoulder” and struck the pair as they were getting back into the vehicle. Both victims died at the scene upon impact, and the driver who hit them then hit…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]One man was killed and seven other people injured early Sunday morning when a driver plowed through a crowd gathered outside a Rock Rest Lodge a Golden Colorado bar, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s office. Four men were taken to hospitals with serious injuries and three other people sustained minor injuries, according to the sheriff’s office. The victims, who include bar employees, have not been publicly identified. The incident happened outside Rock Rest Lodge at 16005 Mt. Vernon Road in Golden at around 1:40 a.m. Investigators believe a fight broke out between “some of the victims,” the driver and another man before the driver steered a Chevy Silverado through a crowd gathered near the bar’s parking lot. Two men have been arrested: the alleged driver, Ruben Marquez, 29, and the registered owner of the vehicle, Ernesto DeJesus Avila, 25, who was a passenger in the pickup truck during the…
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As fate would have it Chris Nowinski had a bad feeling hours before the Dolphins kicked off Thursday night about Tua Tagovailoa and a worse feeling after they did. Then last Friday, Nowinski, a leading expert on concussions, and founder of the Concussion Legacy Foundation stated that he fears Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa may have permanent brain damage which could lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy. And being an active player in the NFL could lead to needing an NFL Disability Claim Attorney later on down the road. Nowinski, a Boynton Beach, Florida resident, had warned that if the Dolphins allowed Tagovailoa to play against the Cincinnati Bengals, it would represent a “massive step back” for concussion care in the NFL. Tagovailoa did play and did suffer a concussion. Now the Dolphins and NFL are facing hard questions on whether the league’s concussion protocol either failed or was not adhered to,…