Local Colorado officials have reached an $8.5 million settlement with a woman who was hospitalized in 2022 after being left handcuffed in a police SUV that was then hit by a train.
The city of Fort Lupton and town of Platteville, Colorado, agreed on the settlement with the victim, Yareni Rios-Gonzalez, according to a release from the Fort Lupton Police Department. The settlement amount will be split equally between the town and city and paid by their insurers, according to attorney Eric M. Ziporin, whose office represents the city.
Rios, who was a suspect in a road rage case, survived the September 2022 collision but suffered nine broken ribs, a broken arm and other injuries.
Does her capacity to assume nobody would be that stupid somehow preclude her from seeing that the car was on the train tracks?
Even in the dark, it’s pretty noticeable when you’re on even the paved part of train tracks that cross a road. I don’t really understand how she couldn’t have realized where the car was parked by sight or by feel while putting the suspect into the back seat.