An investigation into the loss of life of a girl who was struck and killed on Interstate 25 early New 12 months’s Day after an Uber driver left her on the aspect of the freeway is ongoing.
The lady, who has not been publicly recognized, was struck by two automobiles at about 12:33 a.m. Sunday within the northbound lanes of I-25 in Thornton, between 144th Avenue and Colorado 7, in line with Thornton police.
“We’re attempting to see if there’s accountability by the rideshare driver,” mentioned Officer Jesus Mendez, a Thornton Police Division spokesman.
Investigators imagine the rideshare driver left the girl and her associates, who had been sharing a experience, on the aspect of the freeway after she “turned sick” within the automobile, Mendez mentioned. After exiting the rideshare, which “pulled over on the fitting aspect of the roadway on a large shoulder,” the girl walked out into the freeway lanes and was hit by two automobiles.
As a part of the continued investigation, police are trying on the space the place the rideshare driver pulled over to find out whether or not the cease was authorized or a visitors infraction. Some sections of freeway are marked with indicators that prohibit stops. Mendez on Tuesday couldn’t say if the world the place the deadly incident occurred is a part of a prohibited parking stretch.
“We try to finish the remainder of our investigation,” Mendez mentioned.
Mendez on Tuesday described the rideshare concerned as an Uber, though he declined to launch the title of the motive force.
On Tuesday night, in an electronic mail, an Uber spokesman mentioned that the corporate has “not been capable of affirm that this incident occurred on an Uber journey ordered by means of the Uber app”
On Sunday, New 12 months’s Day, the primary driver, in a truck, “sideswiped” the girl and didn’t cease. A second automobile then hit the girl, who died on scene. She was in her early 20s, Mendez mentioned. The Adams County Coroner’s Workplace will launch the title of the sufferer after her household has been notified.
The motive force of the truck, 33-year-old Adam Wooley, was arrested Monday and charged with hit-and-run involving loss of life, police mentioned. The second driver stayed on the scene, cooperated with police, and has not been charged.