Woman Seriously Injured After Colorado Cops Leave Her Handcuffed in Car Parked on Train Tracks

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Woman Seriously Injured After Colorado Cops Leave Her Handcuffed in Car Parked on Train Tracks

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ELIZABETH NOLAN BROWN | 9.26.2022 9:30 AM

What do cartoon villains and Colorado cops have in common? Both are prone to leaving women trapped on train tracks, apparently. Newly released video shows a Platteville Police Department officer park his patrol car on train tracks and then exit the car. Still inside was a woman who had been detained as a suspect in a road rage incident.

A little while after the officer exited, a train plowed into the police car.

The woman inside the car—20-year-old Yareni Rios-Gonzalez—survived the crash but was hospitalized with serious injuries including nine broken ribs, according to Denver's 9News. The crash also left Rios-Gonzalez with a broken arm, a fractured sternum, and multiple injuries to her head, back, and legs.

"She doesn't understand why she was left in the car. She was yelling to get their attention and could see the train coming," her attorney, Paul Wilkinson, told 9News.

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