careless driving
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Colorado justices uphold confidentiality of truck driver’s medical records after fatal crash
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The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the surviving family members of a deceased motorist may obtain the other driver’s narrative of what happened, but they cannot do it through the medical records generated from his post-accident hospital visit. Relatives of Timothy Trenshaw sought to use five sentences from the notes of an emergency…
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Appeals judge urges lawmakers to revisit careless driving law
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Colorado’s second-highest court agreed on Thursday that state law only authorized a single criminal sentence for a man whose careless driving resulted in the deaths of two people, and not the two sentences a Larimer County judge originally imposed. Judge Steve Bernard, a member of the three-judge Court of Appeals panel that decided the case,…
