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Colfax, Osage hot spot for wrecks
By Michael Godfrey
mgodfre3@mscd.edu

Photo by Molly Kreck • kreck@mscd.edu An officer sits in his vehicle at the intersection of Osage and Colfax Avenue following an accident involving the white Chevrolet Lumina in the foreground, driven by David Goens, and the Saturn in the background, driven by an unidentified female Metro student. The driver of the All Pro Towing tow truck said he tows wrecks at least four times a week from the intersection.

An unidentified female Metro student was sent to the hospital after being involved in a car accident on Sept. 28 at the corner of Colfax and Osage, just past the light-rail line leaving campus.

David Goens, the driver of the white Chevrolet Lumina involved in the accident, was driving east on Colfax and turned left onto Osage. He then saw the Saturn and slammed into her driver’s side door, which deployed the airbags on both vehicles.

“The light turned yellow, and as I went through the intersection I saw her,” Goens said. “And I knew it was too late.”

“She had a biology textbook in the back of her car, and she kept saying she needed to get to class,” Goens said. “But she said she had a small pain on her side.”

Paramedics arrived on the scene and examined both Goens and the student before taking her to the Denver Health medical center to be checked out.

Goens received minor burns on his left wrist from the airbags.

“Thank God for seat belts,” he said.

The accident slowed afternoon traffic around the light-rail line, but it was soon cleaned up as towing crews arrived immediately on the scene.

“There are four to five wrecks a week at this intersection,” said Brian, the tow truck driver from All Pro Towing, “That’s why I can get the cars out of here so quickly.”