A juvenile was hospitalized after being hit by a car that ran a red light Saturday morning in north Colorado Springs.The child, whose gender and age were not available, was in a Lexus turning onto Interstate 25 from the eastbound lanes of Woodmen Road when another Lexus going west ran a red light and T-boned the other car, police said. Police: Two drivers arrested in fatal crash in south downtown Colorado Springs were racing at 70 mphBoth vehicles spun, and the child was thrown from the Lexus. They were not wearing a seatbelt, police said.The child and three others were hospitalized with unknown injuries.Police told Gazette news partner KKTV that the driver of the second Lexus may have run the light because they were distracted. The driver will be charged.The crash occurred about 10:45 a.m.This is a developing story. Check back for updates. … [Read more...] about Child thrown from car involved in T-bone crash in north Colorado Springs
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Man killed in T-bone crash southeast of downtown Colorado Springs identified
A man killed in a crash last week southeast of downtown Colorado Springs has been identified as Norman Giddings, the El Paso County Coroner's Office said.The 64-year-old's death is the 45th of the 46 traffic fatalities in what has become a unprecedented year on the roads. With a month and a half left in the year, the city has already surpassed the record of traffic deaths set in 1986 by three.Giddings was heading north on South Nevada Avenue in a gray sedan and attempted to turn left onto Cimarron Street about 6:30 a.m. Friday. A silver SUV heading south on Nevada collided with the sedan in the intersection, police spokesman Lt. Howard Black said. Third pedestrian killed in southeast Colorado Springs intersection in two weeksGiddings was thrown from the car and killed.The woman driving the SUV and a young child in the passenger seat were hospitalized with serious but nonlife-threatening injuries. … [Read more...] about Man killed in T-bone crash southeast of downtown Colorado Springs identified
“God must hate me”: Post Malone’s Rolls-Royce T-boned weeks after plane incident
Post Malone was involved in a minor crash early Friday in California, just weeks after he aboard a plane that made an emergency landing in New York, CBS Los Angeles reports. The hip-hop artist was uninjured. Post Malone's white Rolls Royce was T-boned by a Kia at 2:45 a.m. local time in West Hollywood, police said. The 23-year-old rapper's assistant was driving, while Post Malone was in the passenger's seat. There was a couple and another man in the Kia, CBS Los Angeles reports. They also were not injured. But the frequency of accidents he's been involved in wasn't lost on Post Malone. "First almost a plane, now almost a car," he remarked to the news station. "God must hate me lol," he wrote in a tweet after the accident. The rapper, whose given name is Austin Richard Post, looked "stoic" as he watched police look over the crash site, according to CBS Los Angeles. "Oh yeah, I'm fine," he said. Last month, he was traveling on a Gulfstream jet that blew two tires … [Read more...] about “God must hate me”: Post Malone’s Rolls-Royce T-boned weeks after plane incident
Sick infant dies after family runs red light, gets T-boned on drive to the hospital
A 5-month-old boy died early Saturday after his panicked family sparked a crash as they sped him to a Staten Island hospital after finding him unconscious, police said. Little Damaris Earps was being cradled in his 39-year-old mother Flavia’s arms — and was not in a car seat — when the 2003 Chevrolet Astro van they were in blasted through a red light and was T-boned by a passing car near Broadway and Forest Ave. in West Brighton about 2:30 a.m. First responders rushed the infant to Richmond University Medical Center — where his mom and her 36-year-old cousin, who was driving, were heading when they crashed — but doctors couldn’t save him. Family members told police Damaris had been suffering flu-like symptoms for the past two weeks. Around 2 a.m. Saturday, a family member went to Damaris’ bed and found him unconscious. Brooklyn baby found motionless after being violently shaken dies Flavia Earps and her cousin rushed the baby into … [Read more...] about Sick infant dies after family runs red light, gets T-boned on drive to the hospital
SAPD: Driver ran red light, T-boned police officer downtown
By Caleb Downs, mySanAntonio.com Published 6:44 am, Thursday, April 19, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-5', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 5', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-10', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 10', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); Photo: Ken Branca Image 1of/10 CaptionClose Image 1 of 10 The driver ran the red around 10:50 p.m. at the intersection of East Elmira Street and McCullough Avenue and broadsided the police officer. The driver ran the red around 10:50 p.m. at the intersection of East Elmira Street and McCullough Avenue and broadsided the police officer. … [Read more...] about SAPD: Driver ran red light, T-boned police officer downtown