------------------------ Fort Lupton, Colorado — Newly released video shows the moment a freight train struck a police patrol vehicle with a 20-year-old woman handcuffed in the back seat. According to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, a Platteville police officer pulled over Maria Rios-Gonzalez in Weld County, near Highway 85 and County Road 38, after an alleged road rage incident involving a gun. Two Fort Lupton police officers later arrived at the scene and placed the Rios-Gonzalez in the back of the Platteville officer’s car, which was illegally parked on railroad tracks.
While the three officers were searching Rios-Gonzalez’s pickup truck, a train horn can be heard blaring. As it gets closer one of the officers realizes the car is on the tracks and begins yelling. CBI said Rios-Gonzalez suffered “serious bodily injuries,” including multiple broken ribs and a fractured sternum. The released video also shows officers searching her vehicle. At one point it's noted that a "round" is found near the driver's side door and a gun holster was found in the vehicle. Just before the video provided to 9NEWS ends, an officer searching the vehicle is heard saying, "there's your gun." The Platteville police officer involved is on administrative leave while an investigation is underway.
If the stupid fuggs had put as much effort into taking care of the woman as they did trying to find a pistol to fit the holster, this could have been avoided.
A lot of people will associate this tragedy with the officer being female.
They may be correct.
Well, there were also plenty of "bubbas" standing around that seemed oblivious to the car being on the tracks until it was too late.
You're right, it was their fault she straddled the RR tracks with a suspect inside.
...any bets as to who'll win the lawsuit ?.
Not their fault that she stopped the car on the tracks but they could have told her to move her car off the tracks. But that doesn't fit your narrative, does it?
Wow! They acted like there was more bad guys in the car. It wasn’t like the gun was gonna run off and hide in the ditch. If the gal was guilty or not of something has nothing to do with stupid. Edk
A lot of people will associate this tragedy with the officer being female.
They may be correct.
Well, there were also plenty of "bubbas" standing around that seemed oblivious to the car being on the tracks until it was too late.
You're right, it was their fault she straddled the RR tracks with a suspect inside.
...any bets as to who'll win the lawsuit ?.
Not their fault that she stopped the car on the tracks but they could have told her to move her car off the tracks. But that doesn't fit your narrative, does it?
SHE stopped the other side of the Crossing Sign, COP stopped on the tracks.................
How the hell have they made it this far in life with such a lack of situational awareness? All they gave a [bleep] about was finding a reason to take that person's freedom and liberty.
Not their fault that she stopped the car on the tracks but they could have told her to move her car off the tracks. But that doesn't fit your narrative, does it?
I could be mistaken but seems to me it would be pretty difficult to NOT realize you had parked on the railroad track.. Also seems to me when you see a railroad track it is safe to assume a train might use that track. It was placed there for a reason and railroad tracks are expensive to build so they use them over and over.
Ok for folks that have never done anything in LE.....
Day one schiet if you are working around a rail yard or tracks is to request dispatch to contact said rail company (U.P., Bnsf, whatever) to stop all traffic. Especially if you're in a pursuit or high risk stop that ends near OR ON railroad tracks, stop all rail traffic. Last thing you want is to get smushed by a train or a suspect fleeing on foot to get smushed.
That wasn't done. Either due to incompetence or idiocy. People make mistakes, and these people made a few.
We had 4 sets of tracks in the city I worked in (fire department) and Metro-North controlled them. We couldn’t always shut the whole thing down, depending on the call. Hope your officer gave the right track number. The commuter trains were electric, couldn’t hear them coming.
Lover her tattoos and black nail polish. Screams professional, I can't believe she'd have her head so far up her vajayjay that she'd leave her vehicle with a subject in the cage parked on the tracks.
Somebody should have kept to answering the phones methinks.
A lot of people will associate this tragedy with the officer being female.
They may be correct.
Well, there were also plenty of "bubbas" standing around that seemed oblivious to the car being on the tracks until it was too late.
You're right, it was their fault she straddled the RR tracks with a suspect inside.
...any bets as to who'll win the lawsuit ?.
Not their fault that she stopped the car on the tracks but they could have told her to move her car off the tracks. But that doesn't fit your narrative, does it?
You're right we should replace police forces everywhere with female officers only, they never get anything wrong in the heat of the moment by virtue of being emotionally driven as opposed to being logic driven.
Is everyone in Houston as smart as you or is John Cornyn an anomaly?
Holy crap, with such a disregard for a citizens life, does anyone still wonder why cops are universally hated? I guarantee you if that had been a cop on the tracks that schitshow wouldn't have went down like that.
Holy crap, with such a disregard for a citizens life, does anyone still wonder why cops are universally hated? I guarantee you if that had been a cop on the tracks that schitshow wouldn't have went down like that.
How many dui's do you have? (Guessing a minimum of 2)
Holy crap, with such a disregard for a citizens life, does anyone still wonder why cops are universally hated? I guarantee you if that had been a cop on the tracks that schitshow wouldn't have went down like that.
Not a bad comment actually. The lack of response to get the car off the tracks, let alone park it there in the first place is pretty damning.
A lot of people will associate this tragedy with the officer being female.
They may be correct.
Well, there were also plenty of "bubbas" standing around that seemed oblivious to the car being on the tracks until it was too late.
You're right, it was their fault she straddled the RR tracks with a suspect inside.
...any bets as to who'll win the lawsuit ?.
Not their fault that she stopped the car on the tracks but they could have told her to move her car off the tracks. But that doesn't fit your narrative, does it?
Personally think it would have been real easy to do. She should have figured it out, by the time the lady was put in the car.
Monday morning quarterbacking, gotta wonder if she was accustomed to RR tracks. Not everyone is used to dealing with them and see them The same way. At one time a line ran 500 yards from here. Multiple lines throughout the county. Now there might be 15 mile of line, the closest is 30 miles away. Can go weeks without seeing a rail, months without going over a crossing.
A lot of people will associate this tragedy with the officer being female.
They may be correct.
Well, there were also plenty of "bubbas" standing around that seemed oblivious to the car being on the tracks until it was too late.
You're right, it was their fault she straddled the RR tracks with a suspect inside.
...any bets as to who'll win the lawsuit ?.
Not their fault that she stopped the car on the tracks but they could have told her to move her car off the tracks. But that doesn't fit your narrative, does it?
Personally think it would have been real easy to do. She should have figured it out, by the time the lady was put in the car.
Monday morning quarterbacking, gotta wonder if she was accustomed to RR tracks. Not everyone is used to dealing with them and see them The same way. At one time a line ran 500 yards from here. Multiple lines throughout the county. Now there might be 15 mile of line, the closest is 30 miles away. Can go weeks without seeing a rail, months without going over a crossing.
Doesn’t matter. Once you have someone in custody their safety is on you. That was a very costly mistake for the taxpayers of that area, and the retards involved just had the honor of starting in a training video.
A lot of people will associate this tragedy with the officer being female.
They may be correct.
Well, there were also plenty of "bubbas" standing around that seemed oblivious to the car being on the tracks until it was too late.
You're right, it was their fault she straddled the RR tracks with a suspect inside.
...any bets as to who'll win the lawsuit ?.
Not their fault that she stopped the car on the tracks but they could have told her to move her car off the tracks. But that doesn't fit your narrative, does it?
Personally think it would have been real easy to do. She should have figured it out, by the time the lady was put in the car.
Monday morning quarterbacking, gotta wonder if she was accustomed to RR tracks. Not everyone is used to dealing with them and see them The same way. At one time a line ran 500 yards from here. Multiple lines throughout the county. Now there might be 15 mile of line, the closest is 30 miles away. Can go weeks without seeing a rail, months without going over a crossing.
Doesn’t matter. Once you have someone in custody their safety is on you. That was a very costly mistake for the taxpayers of that area, and the retards involved just had the honor of starting in a training video.
Both of those idiot cops ought to get canned. That has got to be the stupidest crap I've ever seen. Their lack of situational awareness, let alone being "aware" that parking on RR tracks, is the height of dumbassery.
I got a lot of family in the RR business, it's not like they have a lot of latitude in what they can do. Stopping a train requires a minimum of a mile, if you're lucky. My younger stepbrother was an engineer for BNSF, and he hit more than one car during his years. People are just plain stupid around trains these days. I grew up in a small town along the RR, we got lots of films like "Death on the Tracks" during school years, it was always hammered into our skulls to stay away from the tracks whenever we could.
Wow. How someone so stupid can be badged is a scary thought. That said, the enginator COULD have wiped the clock a lot earlier with all those gumball machines going tilt.
I don't think it was the woman cop's patrol car on the track. She was arriving after the car on the tracks was already there. The large cop giving instructions to the lady looks like it was his car.
A few tips from a Engineer , In an emergency place a set of jumper cables from one rail to the next, if done in time this will change the signals to red for the Engineer to stop or place a burning road flare between the rails the train is coming on, we will immediately slow down to 15 or 20 mph.
It appears that it was a traffic stop.... One cop said it took her a long time to pull over... If it was a traffic stop, why was she ordered out of the vehicle? Why was she detained and cuffed without being told what the charge was? Who gives a chit if she had a gun if it was legally owned? I hope she lived and is healthy and she sues the life out of that town!!! The cop that was parked on the tracks should be salting fries at McDonalds the rest of his life because that's about all he can handle. They were all more concerned with searching the vehicle than the train whistle you could hear in the background. Dipshits every one of them!
I don't think it was the woman cop's patrol car on the track. She was arriving after the car on the tracks was already there. The large cop giving instructions to the lady looks like it was his car.
A lot of people will associate this tragedy with the officer being female.
They may be correct.
Well, there were also plenty of "bubbas" standing around that seemed oblivious to the car being on the tracks until it was too late.
You're right, it was their fault she straddled the RR tracks with a suspect inside.
...any bets as to who'll win the lawsuit ?.
Not their fault that she stopped the car on the tracks but they could have told her to move her car off the tracks. But that doesn't fit your narrative, does it?
Personally think it would have been real easy to do. She should have figured it out, by the time the lady was put in the car.
Monday morning quarterbacking, gotta wonder if she was accustomed to RR tracks. Not everyone is used to dealing with them and see them The same way. At one time a line ran 500 yards from here. Multiple lines throughout the county. Now there might be 15 mile of line, the closest is 30 miles away. Can go weeks without seeing a rail, months without going over a crossing.
Doesn’t matter. Once you have someone in custody their safety is on you. That was a very costly mistake for the taxpayers of that area, and the retards involved just had the honor of starting in a training video.
Matters only in understanding how it can happen.
Like any other "accident" how it happened is important, if for no other reason than as a lesson. We have another kid gonna start driving next year, this reminds me we need to get her on/around the tracks. Opportunities to teach.
Reasons why have little to do with results though. If she had never seen tracks before, it wouldn't change a thing for the injured, or liability situation.
Was there a crime committed by her? Anything illegal in the car? Or was this just because she didn't pull over fast enough? If there is footage of the stop, and not too much time between lights and her stopping, this will get dam ugly.
Imagine a lawyer painting the cop as overzealous/power crazy. The poor scared woman being aware enough to go past the tracks, leaving room for the cop. Then the cop with plenty of time to think, locking her in the car they left on the tracks.
Oh Yeah!!! Can't imagine that settling out of court. It just plays too good to an audience.
The next video up after the one provided is the local news media reporting from the town near the collision site, the Reporter says locals stated several trains pass through every day, so it ain’t like the train was a rare event.
They also said Ms. Rios-Gonzales’ lawyer had yet to respond to several requests for a statement.
The guy was prob’ly too busy celebrating, or maybe shopping for a new Lexus or something.
I don't think it was the woman cop's patrol car on the track. She was arriving after the car on the tracks was already there. The large cop giving instructions to the lady looks like it was his car.
It wasn't.
The 24hcf strikes again!
Irrelevant. It looks like it was the other officer’s vehicle but the female officer placed her in the backseat. They both own it. He parked on the tracks, more to the point she placed the subject in the cage in that vehicle. Didn’t move it. Didn’t tell him to move it. Didn’t walk her back to her vehicle.
A lot of people will associate this tragedy with the officer being female.
They may be correct.
Well, there were also plenty of "bubbas" standing around that seemed oblivious to the car being on the tracks until it was too late.
You're right, it was their fault she straddled the RR tracks with a suspect inside.
...any bets as to who'll win the lawsuit ?.
Not their fault that she stopped the car on the tracks but they could have told her to move her car off the tracks. But that doesn't fit your narrative, does it?
Personally think it would have been real easy to do. She should have figured it out, by the time the lady was put in the car.
Monday morning quarterbacking, gotta wonder if she was accustomed to RR tracks. Not everyone is used to dealing with them and see them The same way. At one time a line ran 500 yards from here. Multiple lines throughout the county. Now there might be 15 mile of line, the closest is 30 miles away. Can go weeks without seeing a rail, months without going over a crossing.
Doesn’t matter. Once you have someone in custody their safety is on you. That was a very costly mistake for the taxpayers of that area, and the retards involved just had the honor of starting in a training video.
Matters only in understanding how it can happen.
Like any other "accident" how it happened is important, if for no other reason than as a lesson. We have another kid gonna start driving next year, this reminds me we need to get her on/around the tracks. Opportunities to teach.
Reasons why have little to do with results though. If she had never seen tracks before, it wouldn't change a thing for the injured, or liability situation.
Was there a crime committed by her? Anything illegal in the car? Or was this just because she didn't pull over fast enough? If there is footage of the stop, and not too much time between lights and her stopping, this will get dam ugly.
Imagine a lawyer painting the cop as overzealous/power crazy. The poor scared woman being aware enough to go past the tracks, leaving room for the cop. Then the cop with plenty of time to think, locking her in the car they left on the tracks.
Oh Yeah!!! Can't imagine that settling out of court. It just plays too good to an audience.
In that case, the takeaway would be to teach your daughter to either stop far enough before or after the tracks, and if cuffed to ask to be taken off the tracks.
That should not be on the subject, the officers should have their heads out of their vaginas. Period.
The jumper cable suggestion only works on railroads with block signals, main lines. This one MIGHT have block signals if it is UP, but I'm fairly sure the old C and S line is unsignaled. By the way, it's safe to use jumpers, the voltage is minimal.
Ok for folks that have never done anything in LE.....
Day one schiet if you are working around a rail yard or tracks is to request dispatch to contact said rail company (U.P., Bnsf, whatever) to stop all traffic. Especially if you're in a pursuit or high risk stop that ends near OR ON railroad tracks, stop all rail traffic. Last thing you want is to get smushed by a train or a suspect fleeing on foot to get smushed.
That wasn't done. Either due to incompetence or idiocy. People make mistakes, and these people made a few.
LOL, I suppose that call would go something like this, “Hey, dispatch, yeah officer dumbfuqk here, yeah I parked my vehicle on the tracks, yeah it still running, but that’s not the point, the point is I have to collect a suspect, handcuff her and put her into the squad while it’s on the tracks, I need you to contact the Railroad and have all train traffic in the are stopped until I decide to move my squad, thank, officer dumbfuqk out”.
The jumper cable suggestion only works on railroads with block signals, main lines. This one MIGHT have block signals if it is UP, but I'm fairly sure the old C and S line is unsignaled. By the way, it's safe to use jumpers, the voltage is minimal.
Lover her tattoos and black nail polish. Screams professional, I can't believe she'd have her head so far up her vajayjay that she'd leave her vehicle with a subject in the cage parked on the tracks.
Somebody should have kept to answering the phones methinks.
You missed the big burly man too. He's standing next to the car giving directions to the perp. The HER was parked behind HIM and told him so. Maybe you should change your tack to blaming it on a Mexican. You'd be a lot closer.
I don't think it was the woman cop's patrol car on the track. She was arriving after the car on the tracks was already there. The large cop giving instructions to the lady looks like it was his car.
It wasn't.
The 24hcf strikes again!
Irrelevant. It looks like it was the other officer’s vehicle but the female officer placed her in the backseat. They both own it. He parked on the tracks, more to the point she placed the subject in the cage in that vehicle. Didn’t move it. Didn’t tell him to move it. Didn’t walk her back to her vehicle.
Campfire was accurate this time….
So it's all still her fault? The He Man Woman Hating Club, 24 Hour Campfire Chapter is in session.
Lover her tattoos and black nail polish. Screams professional, I can't believe she'd have her head so far up her vajayjay that she'd leave her vehicle with a subject in the cage parked on the tracks.
Somebody should have kept to answering the phones methinks.
You missed the big burly man too. He's standing next to the car giving directions to the perp. The HER was parked behind HIM and told him so. Maybe you should change your tack to blaming it on a Mexican. You'd be a lot closer.
Wow. How someone so stupid can be badged is a scary thought. That said, the enginator COULD have wiped the clock a lot earlier with all those gumball machines going tilt.
I thought you knew better, Dave. An experienced engineer will have been conditioned by daily near misses and false alarms to resist plugging it until absolutely sure it's called for.
A few tips from a Engineer , In an emergency place a set of jumper cables from one rail to the next, if done in time this will change the signals to red for the Engineer to stop or place a burning road flare between the rails the train is coming on, we will immediately slow down to 15 or 20 mph.
Those are both "maybe". Also calling dispatch to stop trains "maybe". Kind of like some guy you don't know handing you a pistol and telling you it's unloaded. Only he's more believable. It's a hard and fast rule - you don't park on railroad tracks for any reason, unless you have gone through the process of obtaining formal authority to occupy the track. Period. End of story.
The railroads have gone to great lengths to educate people about the danger of being on the tracks. You'd have to pretty much actively avoid learning this to not be aware of it at this point. The injured's lawyer should be all over this.
Like the guy that witnessed a fatal crossing accident. They finally got the mess cleaned up, released to train to continue. The next crossing was 1/2 mile away and the train slams into another car, killing the single occupant. It was the guy who witnessed the previous crossing accident!
Broken ribs, cracked sternum in paper. Surely more. Nothing clear about road rage, menacing, having a pistol. As for engineer, as said, lots of near misses, if he brsked for every one the train would never go. I doubt the headlight shines over a mile to judge the clearance
Wow. How someone so stupid can be badged is a scary thought. That said, the enginator COULD have wiped the clock a lot earlier with all those gumball machines going tilt.
I thought you knew better, Dave. An experienced engineer will have been conditioned by daily near misses and false alarms to resist plugging it until absolutely sure it's called for.
Just to clarify for the uninitiated - it ain't absolutely sure it's called for until it's too late. You don't make an emergency stop to avoid a crossing accident. That's the definition of futility. And it's the car driver's or truck driver's responsibility to not be there when the train comes. You put the train into emergency (stop) as soon as you know the collision will happen because it looks better in court. That's usually only seconds before impact. Only a piglet would do otherwise,.
If that happened to me, and I survived, I hope at least one of the cops would come to the hospital, so I could cuss them out at least 15 different ways. Stupid bastards.
Did I see correctly? After the car was struck by the train, the female officer and one or two others ran towards the wreckage.?? ..but the other officers stayed with the suspects vehicle continuing on with their search and ignored the injured victim? Is that what I saw?
Did I see correctly? After the car was struck by the train, the female officer and one or two others ran towards the wreckage.?? ..but the other officers stayed with the suspects vehicle continuing on with their search and ignored the injured victim? Is that what I saw?
Yes, you saw that, they acted like it was special effects.
Holy crap, with such a disregard for a citizens life, does anyone still wonder why cops are universally hated? I guarantee you if that had been a cop on the tracks that schitshow wouldn't have went down like that.
Not a bad comment actually. The lack of response to get the car off the tracks, let alone park it there in the first place is pretty damning.
Can't put it any better, myself.
Total lack of situational awareness. Only able to function at one thing at a time.
As to the other officers not moving it, some agencies have interlocks on the cars so that only the issued officer can put it in gear once that interlock is engaged and you have to put the key back in the ignition to do it. Yes, that same interlock will allow you to drive the car without the key in the ignition. Does that vehicle have that system? Who knows. Once the female was in the patrol car and the other vehicle secured, the FIRST thing the cop should have done is get her patrol car off of those tracks. You can search for evidence later. They had all the time in the world to search it.
I don't think it was the woman cop's patrol car on the track. She was arriving after the car on the tracks was already there. The large cop giving instructions to the lady looks like it was his car.
It wasn't.
The 24hcf strikes again!
Irrelevant. It looks like it was the other officer’s vehicle but the female officer placed her in the backseat. They both own it. He parked on the tracks, more to the point she placed the subject in the cage in that vehicle. Didn’t move it. Didn’t tell him to move it. Didn’t walk her back to her vehicle.
Campfire was accurate this time….
So it's all still her fault? The He Man Woman Hating Club, 24 Hour Campfire Chapter is in session.
I'm not sure if this is smarquez or his wife I am replying to, but the answer is the same. Read back through it and note where I said "they both own it".
I only mention this because one of you went ballistic with a menstrual bleed about feral horses a couple years ago. When I brought it up later one of you admitted the female (is there a male in the relationship?) had access to the account.
The female (is that word ok?) put the subject in the backseat of the car. THAT WAS PARKED ON THE RR TRACKS. She owns it. Not because she's a chick, because she screwed up.