An online petition has gathered millions of signatures calling for leniency for a 26-year-old truck driver who was sentenced to 110 years in prison for vehicular homicide in an explosive accident at the base of a Colorado mountain highway that killed four people in 2019. More than 4.5 million people had signed the change.org petition […]
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Truck driver convicted in fiery I-70 pileup west of Denver that killed 4
GOLDEN — A truck driver accused of causing a fiery pileup that killed four people and injured six others on a Colorado highway has been convicted of vehicular homicide and other charges. Rogel Lazaro Aguilera Mederos, 25, was convicted by a Jefferson County jury on Friday in connection with the April 2019 crash on Interstate […]
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Four teens die in SUV crash on Colorado’s Eastern Plains
Four teenagers died Wednesday night when the SUV they were riding in on Colorado’s Eastern Plains was struck by a tractor trailer. The youngest victim was 15 years old and the oldest was 16. The crash happened in Prowers County at the intersection of U.S. 287 and Prowers County Road 196 near the town of […]
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Pilot disorientation caused deadly crash near Centennial Airport that left engine lodged in home, NTSB rules
The deadly crash of a small propeller plane last year near Centennial Airport, which left the aircraft’s engine lodged in the side of a Lone Tree home, was caused by the pilot’s disorientation in difficult weather conditions. The National Transportation Safety Board said 67-year-old Robert Marquis probably lost control of the Cirrus SR22 he was […]
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Plane crash that killed Fort Collins family of four blamed on pilot’s decision making, weather
The 2017 crash of a single-engine airplane near Glenwood Springs, killing a Fort Collins family of four, was caused by the pilot’s decision to fly into weather conditions he was not rated to handle and his lack of pre-takeoff planning, federal investigators said this week. Those are the findings of the National Transportation Safety Board’s […]
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4 killed in fiery I-70 crash in west Lakewood; driver of tractor-trailer that caused wreck arrested, facing vehicular homicide charges
Four people are dead after a flat-bed tractor-trailer loaded with lumber barreled down from the foothills and slammed into rush-hour traffic stalled on Interstate 70 in west Lakewood on Thursday afternoon, carving a fiery path of carnage near Colorado Mills. The truck driver, Rogel Lazaro Aguilera, has been arrested and is facing multiple charges of […]