WTH?!?! TRAIN strikes Colorado police cruiser with female road rage suspect, 20, inside after cops parked SUV on tracks!!

[DrQ]

Shocking moment TRAIN strikes Colorado police cruiser with female road rage suspect, 20, inside after cops parked SUV on tracks: Victim was left with nine broken ribs, head injuries and broken teeth

• A female suspect, believed to have been involved in a road rage incident, was pulled over by police in Colorado
• Officers stopped their patrol on railroad tracks and handcuffed 20-year-old Yareni Rios-Gonzalez and placed her in the back
• A train smashed in the police SUV sending it hurtling down the tracks with Rios-Gonzalez still inside
• Incredibly, the mother-of-one survived despite suffering nine broken ribs, a broken arm, a fractured sternum and losing several teeth in the accident
• Police officer who parked the car on the tracks has been placed on leave

TRAIN strikes Colorado police cruiser with road rage suspect inside

A female suspect, believed to have been involved in a road rage incident was pulled over by police in Colorado. Officers stopped their patrol on railroad tracks and handcuffed the woman.

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[pedro47]

Sound liked that police officer needs to be charged with some type of traffic violation. IMHO.

Also, there were no red railroad crossing flashing signals light at this railroad crossing.

 

[Superchief]

I saw the video last night. I don't understand why in the world they would park their car on the tracks and leave her in it while searching the truck. Although there wasn't a flashing light at the crossing, the train was moving fast which indicates that track is regularly used. You also could hear the train horn blowing. It is amazing she survived.

 

[DrQ]

... I don't understand why in the world they would park their car on the tracks and leave her in it while searching the truck. ...

I suspect that it will be a resume generating event.

 

[am1]

police tend to park wherever they want without concern. In this situation it was a lot worse then just annoying traffic.

 

[DrQ]

Watch at 4:10. I remember this from a driver's education lesson on this one:

WAIT UNTIL THE LIGHT STOPS FLASHING (I hope the officer is OK)

 

[Talent312]

I see a personal injury lawsuit in both their futures.

 

[pedro47]

I see a personal injury lawsuit in both their futures.

This time someone cannot blame the railroad lines for not having flashing railroad lights at this crossing. IMHO

 

[davidvel]

police tend to park wherever they want without concern. In this situation it was a lot worse then just annoying traffic.

I don't think that is true at all. Most LE I know are concerned about how they affect drivers when dealing with an emergency scene. What LE do you know that feel that way or was this just a joke?

 

[am1]

No joke at all. Especially on a thread like this.

 

[Ty1on]

I don't think that is true at all. Most LE I know are concerned about how they affect drivers when dealing with an emergency scene. What LE do you know that feel that way or was this just a joke?

In Las Vegas, they routinely block traffic lanes when they can easily be moved off to a shoulder or outdent.

I got pulled over in 2011, drove 100 feet to pull out of traffic, to get screamed at by the LEO for not immediately stopping in the lane.

 

[DrQ]

Somehow, I saw this coming ...
Female road rage suspect, 20, will sue Colorado cops after she was hit by a TRAIN after being left in police cruiser parked over tracks: Suffered multiple horror injuries

• Yareni Rios-Gonzalez, 20, is planning to sue two Colorado police departments after their officers left her detained in a car parked over railroad tracks
• Rios-Gonzalez, a mother-of-one, was put in the back of the car, which was struck by a freight train, leaving her with broken bones and other injuries
• Her lawyer said she is now bedridden and in pain, as she slams officers for not hearing her pleas for help inside the vehicle as they ran
• The police officer who parked the car on the tracks has been placed on leave

Woman hit by train while in police car plans to sue

Yareni Rios-Gonzalez, 20, of Greeley, Colorado, is planning to sue two local police departments after their officers left her detained in a car parked over railroad tracks, where a train hit the vehicle.

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[Superchief]

This is a no-brainer. I'd love to hear the offers' explanation.

 

[RX8]

I watched the video. You could hear the train’s horns while the officers searched the suspect’s car. Had they acted when the horn first blared they may have been able to move the police car.

I see a settlement coming.

 

[ScoopKona]

I see a settlement coming.

I see nothing in particular. No suspensions. Certainly no arrests. An insurance pay-out and off with her.

I have completely given up on the notion that US police will ever be held to the same standards as everyone else.

 

[BJRSanDiego]

This time someone cannot blame the railroad lines for not having flashing railroad lights at this crossing. IMHO

I periodically see police, sheriffs and highway patrol speeding significantly (no lights or siren), turning without signaling, running red lights, etc. All while appearing to do routine duties. I've also ridden with a local cop (off duty) and going 85 in a 65 zone. But I've never seen one law enforcement person pulling over another. I've wondered if I followed behind one of these folks and did the same thing as they were doing if I'd end up with a ticket.

I don't look at this as a particularly "big thing" but feel that law enforcement should follow the rules and should set an example. I've got some tickets on some really minor things.

 

[ScoopKona]

I don't look at this as a particularly "big thing" but feel that law enforcement should follow the rules and should set an example. I've got some tickets on some really minor things.

I think they should be held to higher standards than the people they police -- like the rest of the developed world does things. I have zero confidence that will ever happen here.

 

[Brett]

I see nothing in particular. No suspensions. Certainly no arrests. An insurance pay-out and off with her.

I have completely given up on the notion that US police will ever be held to the same standards as everyone else.

Maybe - but some police departments are changing because of insurance payments

Insurers force change on police departments long resistant to it
The high cost of settlements over police misconduct has led insurers to demand police departments overhaul tactics or forgo coverage
https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...lice-misconduct-insurance-settlements-reform/


"The Insurance Trust risk pool threatened to cancel coverage if the department didn’t impose restrictions on its use of police chases. City officials shopped around for alternative coverage but soon learned that costs would nearly double if they did not agree to their insurer’s demands."
“If I didn’t pay the insurance rates were going to go way up. I was going to have to lose 10 officers to pay for it.”

"Police Departments with a long history of large civil rights settlements have seen their insurance rates shoot up by 200 to 400 percent over the past three years"

 

[MdRef]

I think they should be held to higher standards than the people they police -- like the rest of the developed world does things. I have zero confidence that will ever happen here.

All cops are not bad, just like all people in any group are all bad. Unfortunately the bad tends to stand out because mistakes and problems tend to be more dramatic thereby remembered more than the good people do. Do something wrong, no one forgets. Do something right, no one remembers.

So, you "... think they should be held to higher standards than the people they police..."?

I just lost a Brother that spent the final twenty five years of his life in a wheelchair thanks to some coward holding a hostage inside a house, randomly firing an AR-15 out a window, at the cops on the street. Officers who were there because, that was thier job, their calling in life so to speak. Being one of those officers, he was shot in the back. Lucky to survive, but never to walk again. Are there any "higher standards" than to risk your life for people you don't know? People you have never met and will never meet again? I can't think of any.

 

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[DrQ]

Road rage suspect who was left inside cop car that was hit by freight train is awarded $8.5m after being left with traumatic brain injury​

Woman left in cop car that was hit by freight train is awarded $8.5m

Colorado mom Yareni Rios-Gonzalez was awarded the sum after she was left with a traumatic brain injury following the collision in September 2022.

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