Editor’s observe: The Occasions-Name is counting down the highest 10 information tales of the 12 months, as chosen by the newspaper’s editors.
The 12 months 2023 was as soon as once more a harmful 12 months to be on the street within the Longmont space.
Again in April, a 59-year-old man died when he crashed his truck right into a tree in Longmont on Hover Avenue close to Nelson Highway.
Afterward within the 12 months, a person was arrested in June after reportedly hitting a pedestrian who was crossing the street. In July, the fees have been upgraded from vehicular assault to vehicular murder after prosecutors had introduced the sufferer had died.
Raul Garcia, 46, was initially arrested on suspicion of vehicular assault, DUI, inflicting severe bodily damage to a susceptible street consumer, open alcoholic beverage, and failure to current proof of insurance coverage.
That very same month, a two-vehicle crash left a motorcyclist lifeless. The bike had collided whereas attempting to move the opposite automobile on Colo. 66 close to Nesting Crane Lane, in accordance with a Mead police press launch.
The collision brought about the 38-year-old motorcyclist from Berthoud to be ejected from his bike. He was introduced lifeless on the scene in accordance with the press launch.
Throughout September, a Longmont police officer helped two others pull a person out of a automotive on hearth. Officer Justin Hill was dispatched to a single-vehicle crash with three occupants close to Clover Basin and Larkspur Drive. First, Hill tried to tell apart the hearth after which with the assistance of two different folks, bent the automotive’s window body and pulled the person out of the automobile.
Instantly after the person was faraway from the burning automotive, Longmont firefighters extinguished the hearth.
In December, a 26-year-old man died after his automotive was hit by a semi-truck on East County Line Highway. Nicholas Szathmary died on the scene whereas he was driving west on Zlaten Drive. Szathmary turned left on East County Line Highway and was struck by the semi-truck, in accordance with police.
