Colorado Police Officer Parks Cruiser Across Train Tracks with a Woman Inside & Gets Her Hit by the Train

Photo Credit: Fort Lupton Police Department

A horrifying video shows a Colorado police officer get a handcuffed person inside hit by a train for failure to move their car from the train tracks they parked them on. The woman whose name is Yareni Rios-Gonzalez was pulled over during an investigation of a road rage incident where she was placed in the patrol car handcuffed on September 16th while the car was sitting on train tracks. I will repeat, on train tracks. Body and dashboard cam show the officers searching her car for guns before taking 15 seconds to realize a train was coming and blowing its horn. One officer told the other to “stay back” while the other turned around a few times and then backed away from the car letting it get hit with the woman inside.

Twenty seconds after the train hit the car, a Platteville officer is heard yelling, “Hey, was she in there? Was she in there? Was she in there?” The the Fort Lupton officer shouted back “Oh my God, yes, she was.” Rios-Gonzalez’ attorney Paul Wilkinson said she was unconscious by the time she arrived in the hospital. Her injuries included a broken arm that required surgery, nine broken ribs, a fractured sternum, and a wound to her back and head.

“She saw it coming and could hear the horn” her attorney told the Denver-Post. “She was trying to get the police officers’ attention, screaming at them. She tried unlocking the door. She had her hands behind her back and was frantically trying to unlock the door. I don’t think you ever park on a train track. Ever,” he said blaming the police officers for her injuries. “That would have avoided the whole situation. You just never park on a train track. You have to park somewhere else. It’s unbelievable they did something like this.”

In the statement made by the Fort Lupton Police Department, they said the “officers cleared the suspect vehicle to determine if anyone else was in the vehicle. Within a matter of seconds, the Platteville’s police vehicle, which contained the female detainee, was struck by a northbound train. Fort Lupton officers immediately summoned medical assistance and began life sustaining measures.”

Three agencies are investigating what happened. And I will repeat, anytime people say they simply do not like police, experiences like this that people have are a very good reason to feel that way.

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