1 dead, 1 seriously injured following 3 separate crashes in Colorado Springs, police say

A motorist is lifeless, one other was hospitalized with severe accidents and a driver was arrested following a sequence of crashes in Colorado Springs on Sunday, in accordance with police.

At about 1:40 p.m., officers responded to a name a few crash involving a truck and a go-kart close to the intersection of Structure Avenue and North Chelton Highway, police mentioned. Whereas officers have been heading to the scene, a witness instructed police dispatch that the motive force of the truck picked up the go-kart rider and left the scene.

Police discovered the truck within the 2200 block of Glenwood Circle, and emergency personnel took the go-kart rider to a close-by hospital. The rider’s identify and situation weren’t launched.

Investigators decided that the truck had been towing the go-kart because it headed south on Chelton Highway.

“The go-kart flipped inflicting severe damage to the rider,” who was a person, officers mentioned in a information launch.

Officers suspected that John King, the motive force of the truck, had been driving beneath the affect of medication. King, 49, was arrested after questioning.

At about 2:10 p.m., police have been notified of a collision between a car and a motorbike close to North Nevada Avenue and East Platte Avenue. First responders rushed the motorbike rider to a hospital, the place they later died, police mentioned.

Officers concluded that the bike was going east on Nevada when it ran right into a car that was trying to show onto Nevada on the Platte intersection, close to the William Palmer statue. No arrests have been introduced.

At 5:40 p.m., police have been alerted to a two-car crash at Circle Drive and Bijou Avenue. When officers arrived, they discovered that one car had rolled over, and {that a} driver had left the scene on foot.

“There have been no accidents however officers are working to determine the motive force who fled,” a Sand Creek patrol lieutenant mentioned.