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New Colorado law automatically suspends a driver’s license for fleeing a scene with injuries
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If you leave the scene of an accident involving injury or death when the new year rings in, you just suspended your own driver’s license, the Colorado State Patrol is reminding motorists. Last session lawmakers passed House Bill 1277 to automatically suspend licenses, allowing those suspected to make a case for a temporary license while…
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AG candidate George Brauchler tweets it’s time to get tougher on seat belt laws
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The guy who has a better than fair shot at being the state’s next chief prosecutor made late Christmas wish on Twitter Tuesday. He wants the legislature to buckle down on seat belt violators. George Brauchler, the south metro Denver district attorney running for attorney general, reacted to a Denver Post story about the state’s…
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New Colorado State Patrol chief: 600 road fatalities ‘unacceptable’ (VIDEO)
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Col. Mathew Packard took the helm as chief of the Colorado State Patrol today, and at the center of his message was cracking down on impaired drivers. Traffic deaths are on the rise in Colorado over the past two years, reversing what had been a decade-long trend of falling fatalities. After Packard was sworn in…
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Coloradans weigh in on the future of self-driving vehicles at Senate hearing
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WASHINGTON – A congressional hearing Wednesday implied broad changes are coming soon for Colorado’s highway transportation industry from self-driving truck technologies. Driverless trucks are part of the automated vehicle technology being developed by government agencies and private companies. They use computerized sensors to steer, throttle and brake vehicles, usually without human intervention. Senators at the…
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Eclipse traffic could create year’s biggest traffic jam on Colorado highways, CDOT warns
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Picture six Broncos games getting out at the same time on the same stretch of road. That’s what traffic generated by Monday’s total eclipse of the sun – a once-in-a-century event in these parts – could amount to, the Colorado Department of Transportation is warning state motorists. And for those stuck in traffic between Friday…
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Knife Rights group thanks lawmakers, celebrates ‘sharper future’ as Colorado lifts ban on switchblades
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After 54 years of “silliness,” switchblades are again legal in Colorado, and knife rights activists are cheering. “Today we celebrate a sharper future in Colorado,” said Doug Ritter, chairman of Knife Rights – motto: “A Sharper Future” – at a press conference Wednesday at a knife factory in Golden. Ritter, whose organization is dedicated to…
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Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper signs ‘Move Over for Cody Act’ to honor fallen state troopers
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Gov. John Hickenlooper on Thursday signed the “Move Over for Cody Act” legislation to raise penalties against drivers who don’t exercise caution when approaching and passing roadside emergency vehicles. The bill is named for State Trooper Cody J. Donahue, who was struck and killed in November by the driver of a semi on Interstate 25…
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Court: No message is worth a life, new texting-while-driving legislation
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We all try to multitask in the modern world, but when it comes to texting while driving, no message is worth a life. Texting while driving kills people in Colorado. In January of this year, Brian and Jacquie Lehner, a couple, died while on their motorcycle when struck by a woman who was drunk and…
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ICYMI: Buckle up time again, Denver overuses software and pays more, Aurora open records dispute
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? Heads up, Pueblo County drivers. Or better yet, buckle up, and anyone in a truck statewide might want to heed that advice, as the Colorado State Patrol and Department of Transportation began one of those “Click It Or Ticket” enforcement campaigns. As the Gazette reported, drivers in Pueblo County had the highest non-compliance rate…
