Authorities in Colorado released a video last night (Sunday) in which a freight train is seen colliding with a police car in which a handcuffed woman was sitting, while the vehicle was standing on the railroad tracks. The woman, Yearni Rios-Gonzalez, 20 years old, was seriously injured and is hospitalized.
Paul Wilkinson, her attorney, told The Denver Post that the impact left her with nine broken ribs, a fractured sternum and back and head injuries. She also needed surgery for a broken hand.
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“She saw it coming and could hear the horn,” he said, “she was trying to get the officers’ attention and screaming, she had her hands behind her back and was frantically trying to open the door.” According to him, it is not clear why the police parked the car on the train tracks or why they did not move it when it was prepared inside.