[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]One man was killed and seven other people injured early Sunday morning when a driver plowed through a crowd gathered outside a Rock Rest Lodge a Golden Colorado bar, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s office. Four men were taken to hospitals with serious injuries and three other people sustained minor injuries, according to the sheriff’s office. The victims, who include bar employees, have not been publicly identified. The incident happened outside Rock Rest Lodge at 16005 Mt. Vernon Road in Golden at around 1:40 a.m. Investigators believe a fight broke out between “some of the victims,” the driver and another man before the driver steered a Chevy Silverado through a crowd gathered near the bar’s parking lot. Two men have been arrested: the alleged driver, Ruben Marquez, 29, and the registered owner of the vehicle, Ernesto DeJesus Avila, 25, who was a passenger in the pickup truck during the…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The last thing Nuggets coach Michael Malone did before taking a plow from behind by a 4,500-pound truck was curse. “It’s rush hour. Bumper-to-bumper traffic on the highway, So I come to a stop, look up to check the rearview mirror. And I see this frickin’ blue-and-white old Ford pickup truck, barreling down on me,” Malone said. “The guy never hit his brakes. I have just enough time to say: ‘Bleep!’ And then … boom!” On the next to last day of summer, exactly one week before Malone opened training camp as coach of the Nuggets for the eighth time, he walked out of Ball Arena and hopped in his Chevy Silverado, with assistant Ryan “Ry-Bo” Bowen riding shotgun. They headed south down the highway so both coaches could be home in time for dinner. Checking a traffic app on his cellphone, Bowen directed Malone to take the off-ramp from…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The driver accused of hitting and run accident in Boulder a woman crossing Canyon Boulevard last week has been charged with careless driving resulting in serious injury. Boulder police spokeswoman Dionne Waugh said Zachary Heine, 31, was issued a summons Sunday for careless driving causing bodily injury. Online records do not show a next court appearance at this time. Careless driving causing bodily injury is a Class 1 traffic offense punishable by up to a year in jail and up to $1,000 in fines. According to Boulder police, a 61-year-old woman was crossing Canyon Boulevard at 6:37 a.m. Aug. 15 near the northeast corner of the Boulder Public Library in the 900 block when she was struck by a man driving a white 2017 Nissan Sentra east on Canyon Boulevard. Police said the woman was in the crosswalk at the time. The woman, who has not been publicly identified, was…