Strange but True

A 37-year-old Commerce City man died after falling into the road while trying to do a handstand atop a moving car.

A Douglas County woman died when a Jeep being test-driven by her 16-year-old daughter overturned on a curve.

A 62-year-old truckdriver died in Weld County when his big rig crashed, sending hundreds of cans of Vienna sausages into the cab and crushing him.

The longtime director of road and bridge operations in Jefferson County died when a bulldozer he was driving rolled down a hill, cutting a "twenty-foot swath through the trees."

A man was baked to death after accidentally locking himself in an industrial kiln at the Denver Brick Company plant in Castle Rock.

A Fort Carson paratrooper fell to his death after mistakenly releasing a mechanism that connected his parachute to his body.

A city worker in Glenwood Springs died when the brakes on his street sweeper failed on a steep hill, causing the sixteen-ton vehicle to break through a fence, go airborne and land in a trailer park.

A 61-year-old Colorado Springs man landing his airplane at Arapahoe County's Centennial Airport died when another aircraft landed on top of him.

A 32-year-old Broomfield woman died after being struck by a car while dancing in the southbound traffic lanes of Simms Street.

A Denver man died when a top-fuel dragster backed over him at a local speedway.

A 42-year-old Colorado Springs man was shot to death by a 21-year-old woman in a "confrontation over dog feces."

A dog living on 81st Street in Boulder County died in what police described as a drive-by shooting.