Yareni Rios-Gonzalez was pulled over in 2022 by Colorado police responding to a road rage incident involving a gun. The woman was handcuffed and placed in the back of patrol car parked on railroad tracks. Minutes later, a train plowed into the cruiser.
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The Colorado woman badly injured in 2022 when the parked police car in which she was handcuffed was struck by a freight train has been awarded $8.5 million to settle a lawsuit against the police.
Newly released video footage of a train slamming into a Platteville Police Department cruiser shows two officers searching a nearby pickup truck for a gun and a third officer running for safety just before the crash that injured a woman who was being held in police custody in the back of the vehicle.