The charges follow a Colorado State Patrol investigation into the Aug. 12 crash at Diagonal Highway and Niwot Road
Daniel Pratt, 45, is charged with two counts of vehicular assault, a Class 5 felony, according to a release from the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office.
The charges follow a Colorado State Patrol investigation into a crash on Aug. 12 at Diagonal Highway and Niwot Road., Pratt was on duty and responding in his patrol vehicle to a report of a large fight at the Boulder County Fairgrounds. Pratt, who had activated his lights and sirens, headed north on Diagonal Highway and ran a red light at the intersection and struck a Prius going eastbound on Niwot Road.
The passengers of the Prius, a 67-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman from Erie, were both seriously injured and taken to Boulder Community Health’s Foothills Hospital. While an affidavit was not immediately available, a release from the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office said investigators conducted a crash reconstruction analysis and investigation into “the speed of the vehicles, the right of way, the red traffic light, the observations of eyewitnesses, the sheriff’s office policy for activating lights and sirens, as well as the policy for approaching a red traffic light while running emergent.
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