AURORA | Just days after Aurora police publicized pleas to the public to be en guard for pedestrian safety, a 70-year-old man was struck by a truck yesterday and died.
Police were called to the intersection of East Sixth Avenue and Potomac Street at about 5 a.m. after reports of an auto-pedestrian collision there.
“The investigation has determined a Ford F-150 was driving east on East Sixth Avenue when it struck a 70-year-old male pedestrian who was crossing Sixth Avenue north to south,” Aurora police spokesperson Joe Moylan said in a statement. “The 70-year-old man sustained life-threatening injuries and was rushed to a local hospital, where he later died.”
Police said the driver of the pick-up truck remained at the scene and cooperated with investigators.
Police last week met with area reporters to send a message to both motorists and pedestrians to pay attention and be alert.
Despite a reduction in the number of pedestrian fatalities in Aurora and the region, police reported 173 auto-pedestrian collisions so far this year, nine of them fatal, including the death from Thursday.
Public pleas are not worth the paper they’re written on. The public needs to allow the police to their jobs and get these careless drivers off our roads. This is truly a public safety crisis. Drivers in Colorado are awful thank to the infestation from California, and no one willing to do anything about it. Get these people off the roads, impound and destroy their cars and start making an example of these people. We all know most of these people driving with expired plates and temp tags don’t have insurance, so they’re doubly driving illegally.