A 43-year-old Steamboat Springs man was pronounced dead Wednesday night at UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center following a single-vehicle crash at the northeast corner of the intersection at Pine Grove Road and Central Park Drive.
Northbound Academy Boulevard is back open near Flintridge Drive in Colorado Springs after being closed for about four hours due to a fatal crash Friday night.
According to police, a car driving northbound on Academy hit a woman crossing the road. The 28-year-old woman reportedly stepped off the curb when she was hit. She reportedly had life-threatening injuries as a result of the crash and was taken to the hospital, but later she died from those injuries.
The driver remained on scene.
Colorado Springs Police Department’s Major Crash Team is investigating the crash. Police say no drugs or alcohol were involved in the crash. The names of those involved have not yet been released.
Why the switch? We’re starting to see population-level protection from vaccines, and that lessens the risk of disease transmission across the state, says state epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy. With an improved testing landscape, especially in settings like schools and summer camps where we typically see a large number of outbreaks, this change allows us to efficiently focus our resources on the outbreak scenarios most likely to impact public health.
The move also makes the state s stats look better but the outbreak totals were already falling under the old rules.
Until June 1, the CDPHE considered an entity an outbreak after two or more COVID-19 cases among residents, staffers or other people connected to a specific location were confirmed within a fourteen-day period, or two or more cases of respiratory illness with an onset of symptoms within a fourteen-day period were paired with at least one additional COVID-19 diagnosis.
Jun. 2 While the disproportionate rate at which Black drivers are pulled over compared to white drivers has lessened some in Kansas City for the first time in years, the disparity is still substantial, a new state report shows. In 2020, Black drivers were 23% more likely than white drivers to be pulled over by Kansas City police, according to the Missouri Vehicle Stops 2020 Annual Report, .