Saturday, January 28, 2012
A woman was killed today after her car was hit at an intersection by a Denver
Fire Department engine responding to a call.
Around 11:22 a.m., Engine 22 was responding with lights and sirens to a
kitchen fire at 9888 E. Vassar Drive, said Phil Champagne, spokesman for the
Denver Fire Department.
The fire engine was traveling east on Hampden Avenue toward the Yosemite
Street intersection.
As the engine approached, an 80-year-old woman driving a Hyundi Sonata,
apparently drove through the red stop light and into the intersection, said Lt.
Matt Murray, spokesman for the Denver Police Department.
The fire engine unseccessfully attempted to avoid the Sonata, but slammed
into the car. The engine then collide with a Jeep Liberty waiting at the
stoplight, pushing it into a Lexus behind it.
The drivers of those cars were not injured.
Emergency crews extricated the woman from her car. Firefighters performed CPR
on the woman before she was transported to a nearby hospital where she later
died, Murray said.
