July 9, 2026 • 35 mins
This episode of the Dan Caplis Show is a wake-up call for all Coloradans. The host delves into the alarming statistics on road safety in the state, highlighting the staggering number of deaths and injuries on Colorado's roadways. With a population growth of over 1 million people since 2010, the number of fatalities has increased, despite significant advancements in vehicle safety features.
The conversation centers around the question of how Colorado's roadways have become so much more dangerous than they need to be. The host shares personal anecdotes and discusses the impact of the left's policies on law enforcement, which has led to a lack of enforcement on the roadways. He also touches on the issue of distracted driving, citing a recent case where a truck driver killed someone while texting and driving, but received no jail time.
The host also discusses the new requirements for teenagers to complete 30 hours of driver's ed before receiving their permit, which he believes is a step in the right direction, but not enough to address the root of the problem. He also shares his frustration with the lack of accountability for those who cause fatal accidents, citing cases where drivers have received little to no punishment for their actions.
If you're concerned about the safety of Colorado's roadways and want to hear more about the host's ideas for solutions, tune in to this episode of the Dan Caplis Show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Dan Kaplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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do we protect ourselves? We don't let people wrongfully kill
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our family members or wrongfully kill us. I mean, that's
at the heart of the American way, at the heart
of the Western ethic. So how did we ever get
to the point where we're willing to just sit back
like a bunch of sheep and accept all this carnage
on our roadways without even fighting back. I just don't
get it, truly, just from the mechanical psychological part of
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it to start with.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I don't get it. And then what are we going
to do to change it?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I really want to focus on this lot during the
show today because I know you're probably listening from the.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Car or you were driving earlier.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
If you aren't listening now, and unless you're one of
those brave people serve in our police, fire, military, you're
in the most danger and your family's in the most
danger you ever will be when you're on Colorado's roads.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And this is the point.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
There's always some inherent danger, right, but you're in so
much more danger than you have to be on our roadways.
So how did we ever get to this point? And
what do we do to change it? I have a
lot of ideas on what we do to change it,
but how did.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
We get here? And I'd love to hear your ideas.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
On how to fix it as well, So we're going
to talk about that. I have the latest numbers in
front of me in terms of you know that death's
on our roadway each year, and other injury crashes on
our roadways each year, and DUI and d UID, which
is of course drugs and teens. And that's part of
what triggered this conversation today. I talk about this a
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lot on air for obvious reasons, Right, It's so important
to you and your family, and we all have a
perspective on it because we all live it.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
We live the bad parts of it. And you know,
I mean, if there's.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
One common denominator now, just an epidemic, an explosion in
these cycle killers who don't care at all about the
life of your children, or your wife, or your husband
or your family who are just weaving in and out
of traffic it well over one hundred miles an hour.
Sometimes they're in fancy sports cars or big trucks. Very
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often they're in cars that may cost less than the
dinner they just had.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
But one thing's clear.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
They don't care about their life and they don't care
about yours. And we've seen this explosion in that, right,
you know it. You see it all the time. I
was trying to count it up a week or two ago.
Something got me triggered on it, and it had to
be an average of once a day I had somebody
flying by me at well over one hundred weaving in
and out of traffic. And then we have the subset
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of that, which is the true insanity. I don't even
want to call it motorcycles, right because you have this whole,
this whole world of really responsible bikers, you know, who
are out there operating responsibly.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
They're not the issue.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
The issue is the explosion of normally these younger people
in these crowch rockets. And then of course we've all
experienced it where they take over a roadway, pop and
wheelies everything else, and that can be a nuisance, but
it's not that dangerous. What is dangerous is the in
and out of traffic get one hundred mile an hour stuff,
and with bikes, we all know it gets a lot
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faster than that.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So yeah, I want to.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Talk today about what we do to fix it, and
we'll have this local I think it's a Channel seventh
story about that. The new requirements that just kicked in
July one for kids to have to have more drivers
add before they get their license. To me, whose bright
idea was it to ever stop that? I mean, you
just look at the numbers of team drivers involved in crashes,
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team drivers involved in fatals, team drivers causing fatals, and
it's like, my lord, a society that won't protect its children.
And I've been saying the same thing for years about marijuana.
You know, a state that will not protect its children,
what good is it? And I truly don't get that,
because honestly, I came here from Chicago.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You know, I grew up in Chicago. My dad was
a cop.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
My mom could have been anything and chose to give
it all up to raise us and at the greatest
childhood imaginable, And then I was a golf caddy.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
If you ever saw the movie Caddyshack.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You know, it's about a kid competing for a golf
scholarship and so much more.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And I competed for that scholarship.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Bill Murray's brother was competing for the same scholarship about
the same time, the Evans scholarship, and I was blessed
to win it, and they shipped me out to Colorado.
And I literally I thank God every single day, every
single day since.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
They sent me out to Colorado to go to see
U Boulder. So I'm grateful to be here.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I am grateful to be here, and I think about
all the positive stuff every day.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But then I just sit back and say, what is.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
It about our state where we'll put up with this stuff?
Is it that it's so beautiful here that there's just
sort of a mellowness that kicks in and we just
accept all this stuff that no society in its right
mind would accept. You know what is it about Colorado?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
In my mind, the good outweighs the bad a million
times over. That's why I'm still here. But that doesn't
mean we should just accept the bad, especially when it
kills people. And if it doesn't kill them physically. With
so many kids, it strips them of their ambition, which
equals their future at least as brighter future as they
would have had. Yes, So, and how did we ever
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get to the point? I mean, I know they'll blueprint
in that whole story. I was here when the Dems
pulled off this plan with a whole bunch of money.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
To take over the state. I get that, But how
has it stuck?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I mean, how did we ever get to the point
where the Colorado GOP went from something that, Hey, you
can have your differences on policy or establishment versus grassroots,
but the Colorado GOP went from a point where it
was a powerhouse and no matter which you know, buckets
somebody fell into. If you're going to use sloppy broad labels,
you had, you know, real powerhouse people all the way around,
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winning a lot of races, et cetera. How do we
ever get to the point where that all fell apart?
And I think there are probably some common denominators in there,
but anyway, you know, kind of a broad question, but
it applies to so many different things, including these horrible
statistics on the deaths and injuries on our roadways, which
we we can make big improvement, right, I mean, it's
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never going to be perfect.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It's just kind of inherent.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
When you're going to have all of these vehicles out there,
you know, weighing so much, and vehicles are bigger now
obviously go and sovest you're going to have some death
and destruction in the very best designed, best enforced process
that that's baked.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Into life, that's inherent in life.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And then I think our obligation is to just make
it right when somebody does something wrong that takes somebody
life or cost them their ability to or living whatever,
to make it right. But it can be so much
safer than this right now, infinitely safer than it is
right now. And I know what I'm talking about because
that's been my real job for forty three years, is
representing people seriously hurt in motor vehicle crashes or the
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survivors of those killed. And I just know so many
more lives could be saved, so much easier. So what
do you think the cause is? What do you think
to fix? And I'm going to work in those numbers.
So we're going to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Throughout the show.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Got and I want to talk about this, not that
you care, maybe you do about Denver Public schools. I
think we all should what happens in Denver doesn't stay
in Denver, and each and every one of these little
kids that they're a precious.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Child of God and it is immoral that their.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Futures are being thrown away because they're caught up in
a public school system that, with some noble exceptions, a
public school system that is designed not for their benefit
but the benefit of the politicians, the benefit of the
Democratic Party, the benefit of the teachers' unions. That's sick.
It's just that's the twisted sister stuff. And it goes
back to how we started the show. If we can't
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just all across party lines say hey, kids, that's sacred stuff.
Right with kids.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
They're innocent, they're dependent on us, they have their whole
lives in front of them. That's kind of sacred stuff.
We should all agree on being able to protect them.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
First, not kill them before they're born, and second, once
they are born, make sure they have every opportunity to
have a real shot in life at their full potential.
Everybody from the malot curises of the world you know,
to the most staunched conservative should.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Agree on that.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
But think of the irony and Arie Armstrong's going to
join us from Complete Colorado at five oh six. He
has a great piece on Malotkiros and her socialist fantasy
now that she is the face of the Democratic Party
in Colorado. But think about the phoniness inherent in socialists,
the evil intended or not. Sometimes it's intended, sometimes it's
just the natural byproduct of socialism. But the phoniness right,
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because you get like, take them a lot cross, you
get them a lot Caros who claims to care about
the weak and defense us and the powerless and everything else,
But the.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Lives of these children mean nothing to her.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I've never met her. I am assuming that, inferring that,
concluding that from the position she takes right, Because if
the lives of the children meant something to her or
other socialists and democrats socialists that's what we have now
in Colorado, or elected democrats, well then they be acting
the opposite of the way they're acting, whether it comes
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to not killing them in large numbers before birth or
giving them true equal opportunity and education, which these socialists
and socialist democrats know they're never going to get in
our current public school system. No, they don't care about
these kids. At all, and hopefully more and more people
are seeing just how phony they are. So we got
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all that fun stuff ahead of us, and much more.
When I come back, I'll deep dive you into the
latest true stats on the desks and carnage on a roadway.
But above all, I want to light a candle and
talk about how do we fix it?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Got some ideas?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Three all three seven one three eight two five five
d an five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
And now back to the Dan Kapler Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Teenagers wanting to get their drivers permit. We'll want to
listen to this. Starting January. First, all miners receiving their
permit will have to complete thirty hours of drivers ED
programs before receiving that permit. Your traffic reporter Brian Sharad
joins us live from Affordable Driving School in Parker and
Brian the state says this new law is needed to
provide education and safety training to our next generation of drivers.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Especially Michelle.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
When these are the teenagers as well, that's causing the
highest rate of crashes in Colorado. Carls State Control tells
me just last year, ten hundred of these trashes were
caused at my teenagers and are also saying, now this
is all because of distraction while they're driving, but also speeding.
So let's first break down this new law. If you're
a team between fifteen and seventeen years old, you must
complete a thirty hour education course. If you are eighteen
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to twenty years old, you must either complete a thirty
hour education course or a four hour awareness program. All
miners under twenty one must pass a motorcycle safety training program. Also,
anyone under the age of sixteen and a half and
trying to get their license must complete six hours behind
the wheel.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It's pitiful.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
First of all, we should have had this a long
time ago. What idiot decided not to Second? This is
nowhere near enough, is it. I mean, I'd love your
taking this, but when you're thinking of the stakes, like
is okay that kid's going to be alive or that
kid's going to be dead, or other people are going
to be alive or other people are going to be
dead based upon how well they drive, the stakes are
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way too high for this.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Wow, thirty hours is that enough?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
But that's one issue. The other issue is at least
they've gone back to having something, but the bigger fix,
the bigger problems that they they and so much mass
carnage on our roadways.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
What's the cause, what's the solution.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I'm going to get you the latest stats as we
go through our calls and text three or three seven
one three eight two five five d an five seven
seven three nine. We'll start in Denver, color and a
perfect place to start since there is such an enormous
issue there, Bob, you're on the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Welcome, Thank you, Dan. I just experienced some of this
the last few days. I was evacuated from the big fire,
so I drove to Denver yesterday. I drove from Denver
back to Pueblo back up here. Monday, I'm back in
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the Springs and back here and then whenever they let
me in, I'll be back. But most of what I've
seen is multiple things. First, the state of Colorado, I
believe the only requirement to get a driver's license is
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to have a pulse. People just have no idea what
they're doing. It doesn't matter how old they are. Something
I noticed just the past couple trips is these big
box trucks, three wheelers, three axles are bigger running in
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the left lane under the speed limit. There's no highway
patrol around doing anything about it, and everybody behind them
gets all ticked off and they start driving much more erradically.
And so I think we need generally a lot stiffer
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laws for violations, including mandatory jail time for stuff, especially
picking up a phone and talking or texting on it,
and uh, just much better enforcement of new laws.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Well said my friend. Now let me ask you, did
you lose your home in this fire?
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (14:29):
We got a well we didn't. Our insurance guy got
a satellite picture. It says the house is still there. Good,
but we're kind of almost in the middle of this fire. Wow.
When it started, well, and it was Monday, a week
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ago when I was removed, and that was the day
it started.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Well, I'm so glad you made it. So glad you
made it out, my friend, very thing. And I'm actually
at a case where unfortunately the people did not make
it out, and that it's just a horrific, horrific way
to go. So glad that Bob Didney's right. Don't target
on a bunch of things, and listen, I think we
can all agree on this, right, that that at the
core of the just rapid escalation of craziness on our roadways.
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Is the fact that the Left has undermined law enforcement,
and so we don't have the same enforcement on our
roadways because the left has undermined their budgets, the left
has undermined support for law enforcements, so law enforcement officers
don't feel as free to lean forward in enforcement, and
as a result, we don't have nearly enough enforcement. Don't
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blame law enforcement, Blame the left, Blame the politicians. But
that's the reality. Because you've got all these you know
it just reckless, you know, would be killers out on
our roadways right now. Just figure they can get away
with it, and figure and you can get away with it.
And I don't want to divert into this too much,
but it's important because I do a lot of trucking
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cases here and.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Around the country.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
And I will tell you the message that Jared Polis
sent to the underbelly of the trucking world, which I'd
estimate to be about thirty thirty five percent of the
trucking world. He got about sixty sixty five percent that
are heroic and perform a vital public service. He got
thirty thirty five percent it is a clear and present danger.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
To your family. And when Jared Polis.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Decided to take this mass killing trucker who knew that
his truck was unsafe, he got out of the truck
because he was told not to get back into it.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
He knew his breaks weren't working.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
He got back in anyway, and then he decides to
plow into the back of stopped rush hour traffic rather
than put it in a ditch. And Jerry and Jefferson
County Democrat prosecutor took a cup of coffee to.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Convict him because his guilt was so clear.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
And then Jared Polis gets Kim Kardashian whispers in his ear,
steps in and cuts this guy sentenced by ninety five percent?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
What message do you think that sent.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
To the under belly of the trucking industry nationwide? So
there are all sorts of things that combine to make
our roads so much more dangerous than they need to be.
But I appreciate Bob's call because he's starting to get
into some of the particulars here that really do matter.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Also really do matter. I want to get to some
text on it as well.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
As we talk about the fixes, Dan, we also have
many illegals driving without a valid license and insurance. We
also have illegals to pay quote driving schools to not
validly pass the written and physical driving test. Coloraders should
do undercover operations to shut down these bs driving schools.
That from Alexa and Alex a great point, but you
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know that's not going to happen because the state right now,
the Democrats socialists who control Colorado, have made a decision
that folks here illegally are more important than folks here legally.
And I know that's a totally upside down world, but
they've made that decision for their own perpetuation of power,
right because they want to attract more folks to come
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to Colorado illegally and more folks who are in the
country legally to choose Colorado because they believe that will
then expand the Democrats socialist base. So it's just another
way that the left in Colorado puts the lives of
folks here illegally ahead of those here legally and listen to,
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every single life is precious passing here in dignity. I
just think it's fundamentally wrong, and the people in power
to say, oh no, these people's lives over here are
going to be more important.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Than those people's lives. But that's what they do. You're
on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Because What's the Fix?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And hooked today as we're talking about finally that they
have some easily little requirements for teenagers who are just
getting their permits now thirty hours of drivers ed re acquired.
That story we listened to us was kind of funny
in the sense that if you're eighteen to twenty, you've
got a choice between the thirty hours or a four
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hour course. Can't imagine which one people are going to choose.
But bigger question, all right, what's the cause? What's the fix?
And I want to get you some of these numbers
as we talk about it, I'll work in text as well.
I cannot think of a subject that that is probably
more relevant to you and me and our families and
our lives, because we are never in more danger than
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we are when we are out on these Colorado roadways,
and there's so much more dangerous than they need to be.
So just a couple of flash things twenty ten, twenty ten.
Zach Zech is a brilliant brilliant young talent who is
producing this show and behind the glass now, Zach, twenty ten,
how many deaths do you think we had on annual
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on Colorado roads twenty ten and our population then was
five twenty nine? Well, fortunately not four hundred and forty eight,
four hundred and forty eight deaths a year.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I don't know what I was thinking. I was thinking
like nationwide, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I think that's right. I think you were. And then
a number of crashes in Colorado would be like a
little over one hundred thousand, hundred four thousand. That's in
twenty ten. And our population back then was like five million,
maybe five million, fifty thousand now twenty twenty five, how
many deaths do you think we have on our.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
Roadways considerably more like with seven fifty you said four
hundred rights for seven to fifty maybe.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, good, good guess.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Or up to six hundred and seventy seven for forty
eight and twenty ten, six seventy seven in twenty twenty five.
Now we've had a population growth, right, we were at
five million in twenty ten and we're at six million
in twenty twenty five. But that still goes beyond population
growth But here's the point. It's also think about how
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dramatically the safety of cars, like occupant protection safety has
increased since twenty ten. It's been a tremendous blessing. It's dramatic.
And I know during all of those years and many others,
that's all I do day in and day out, is
it's not the only type of case I do, but
represent people in serious and in fatal crash cases, and
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I can tell you the improvement in motor vehicle safety
has been a gift from above. And the fact that
our numbers are going up and even exceeding the rate
of population growth at a time when vehicles are getting
so much more safe, it just reinforces that we've just
kind of surrendered our roadways.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Why have we done that? Don't blame law enforcement? Why
have we done that? Obviously the left has for all
of its own twisted reasons.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
But why have we let them do it? Why isn't
this more of an issue? Why isn't it more of
an issue in elections? I can't remember it ever being
talked about in elections.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yes, so.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Why and what's the fix? Three H three seven one
three eight two five five D A N five seven, seven,
three nine, start with a couple of fixes. Right now,
maybe it's going to take a ballot issue because you know, Democrats,
socialists controlled the state and they have no interest in
doing anything which would punish anybody other than Tina Peters
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for anything, right, So they're not going to do anything here,
and people would be shocked to find out. I share
hope they never ever do that. Right now, there are
a whole lot of people, a whole lot of people
killing people on Colorado's roadways who never go to jail
for a day, clearly at Faull, never go to jail
for a day doing shocking, crazy, insane things.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Zach, I'll give you examples.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And do not blame the judges because they they're they're
bound by the law, they're handed by our legislature. Do
not blame law enforcement that they have had their support
undermined by the left. But Zach will give you example, okay,
And there are so many to choose from. How about
this one amazing man, amazing man, and he's going out
to work, he works hard, wonderful family, and he's going
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out to work and he's out there on seventy and
he's driving toward the airport. And here you have somebody
driving a semi, driving a semi for a very big company,
and that person driving the semi, they took their eyes
off the roads.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Beat this out of them in a deposition.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Took their eyes off the road for nine seconds driving
at full highway speeds in a semi.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Were they texting? Why were they? Were they looking for
nine sudsy excuse?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
The testimony under oath was I dropped my bag of
Cheetos and I was picking it up. But I was
able to piece different things together through acident, reconstruction, etc.
Show this was a nine second period. Now I'm with you,
it was probably that's ridiculous. And listen, we of course
in all these cases, we go out, we subpoena all
of the devices, the memories, everything else, so we gather
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all the electronic evidence. But but yeah, that was his
excuse nine seconds full highway speed in a semi. So
of course he rear ends this guy and it's horrific
and that this great soul.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Is lost, not a day in jail. And I, you know,
I pushed the DA for a meeting.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
We had a big meeting with the elected DA, with
people from law enforcement, with all sorts of other people.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
This just cannot happen.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
And in the end, yeah, not a day, not a
day in jail. And big well, there's a big hole
in our traffic laws in Colorado when it comes to punishment,
when it comes to what can be successfully prosecuted as
vehicular homicide vehicular assault. I think that was a case
where the DA should have prosecuted it that way for sure,
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But the hole in the law makes it harder on das.
And yeah, it's so people have no where People just assume, okay,
howbody drives are ecosy and kill somebody on a roadways,
They're going to jail. No, the vast majority of the time,
not a day in jails.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I can't insane.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I can't imagine being that guy's family.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Oh yeah, and I can tell you so many other stories.
So we go and we do everything we can on
the civil side to the max. But at the end
of the day, you know, and this is money that
lets people keep their family together, keep a roof over
their head, and move forward in life.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
But at the end of the day, they want their
love run back. And what's.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Causing so many more people to be killed on a
roadways as people aren't hearing the stories. People aren't hearing
the stories of Oh, hey, you know Billy over there.
He's in jail now for a couple of years, okay,
because he was texting while he was driving and he
killed somebody.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
No, because Billy probably didn't go to jail for an hour.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
That's insane.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
There's a loss of life. I feel like, find some
extreme circumstance. You have to do some time.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
You got to, you absolutely have to. Yeah, it's enormous,
enormous holes in our law.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
Not treating it like first degree murder where they're locked
up for forty years or they're on death row. I
get that, but they need to be seen sometime. That's Ridiculousyeah.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Another one with the trucker, you know, kills multiple people,
multiple people on the roadway. It's a scene straight out
of hell, Straight out of hell. And we ended up
in that case and great judge, great cherry, courageous clients.
We ended up by the largest still I think truck
and verdict in Colorado history, on the civil.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Side, but on the criminal side, not a day in jail.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
And I got to say, everyone will talk about how
Jared Puls's legacy is going to be Tina Peters, either
positively or negatively, however you fall on that. It's crazy
to me that that story that I think is fairly
inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, is his legacy
when again, like he got a letter from Kim Kardashi
and like.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
That's ridiculous, right, I think it was more than a letter,
my friend. But yeah, yeah, I'm talking about whispering in
his ear, and you know, just the lure of being
in with a Hollywood star and all of that. But
it is and I'm with Zach on that, you know,
I think that Tina Peters is going to cement Polus's
legacy with the left in Colorado because they hate her
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so much. But in terms of the state, You've led
us to a good question as well, zech what do
you think the.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Legacy of police will be in this state? And why.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I don't think it's going to be Tina Peters for
the broader population. I think for the Democrats socialists to
run the state, it's Tina Peters. And listen, if you're
new to this show, thank you. But I'm not a
Tina Peters fan. I've enjoyed it when i've had her
on air, and my heart breaks for as a gold
star mom. But I think she committed a serious crime
and deserved to be prosecuted and convicted. She did not
deserve to do that long in jail as a seventy
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year old first time offender in a nonviolent offense. You know,
when you have so many lefties committing worse offenses, they
don't do any jail. No, that that was wrong, But no,
I think his legacy, more broadly, will be defined by
other things.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I bet you his x as.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Many more Colorados will remember him spitting in the face
of the victims and spitting on the graves of the
victims burned to death on the highway by that mass
killing trucker because Kim Kardashian whispers in his hair.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
But more broadly, what do you think Polus's legacy will be?
And why?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
So? We're going to continue our focus on Colorado roads.
I'm going to continue to get you these latest statistics
which just confirm we got to do better than this.
We can do better than this. So much unnecessary death
on our roadway? How do we fix it?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
You're on the Dan Kapli Show.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Now back to the Dan Kapler Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Associated Press has declared a winner in the Colorado GOP primary,
and that is Victor Marx. So Victor Marx is now
the GOP nominee. I would say officially, because I think
it's certain at this point, but it's not official in
this of the Secretary of State making the declaration. But
Victor has extended his lead over Barb during this cure
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period counting so at this point eight five to twoh
five five seven zero, And I'm quoting the Ernest Lunging
piece in Colorado Politics and Ernest saying that this falls
well outside of the margin that would trigger and automatic recounts.
So congratulations to Victor Marx. And then you know, well,
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obviously with this breaking news, we'll flow with that and
turn the conversation. I want to get to some text
on our critical issue of safety on our roadways, and
I'll get to those stats that I put together for
you as well. If not today, I depending on how
many people want to talk about this breaking news. If
a whole lot too, then I'll probably get back to
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these statistics tomorrow. If nobody wants to talk about it,
I'll do it now. But that's a big deal. That's
a big deal. You know, an outsider came in and
won the Colorado GOP primary for governor against a highly respected,
very accomplished, very impressive, you know, woman who had a
long history of public service in various elective offices. And
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so I think there are a lot of lessons to
be learned from this, or, if not to be learned,
to be confirmed. Right, And so let's have that conversation.
Why do you think Victor won? And what advice would
you give to Victor and his campaign going up against
Phil Wiser. We'll start with that three oh three seven
one three eight two five five d an five seven
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seven three nine as Zach seekers behind the glass, lines
up calls and the text phil in I want to
get to a few of these texts on safety on
our roadways, which I think we all agree at this
point is just abysmal.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
It's fallen apart.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Don't blame law enforcement, Blame the left that's undermined him,
and blame a lot of other things, but don't blame
law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Says Dan.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I absolutely agree that driving on Colorado roads is my
biggest fear. I've lived most of my life driving all
over Colorado roads, and I'm increasingly terrified to drive because
of careless distracted drivers. Yeah, and it's gotten a whole
lot worse. We all know that, right, and why and
how do we fix it?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Now? We know and it's just common sense.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
That the big mistake legalization of marijuana is going to
lead to much more carnage on our roadways. And it
has right. If you're going to inject the roadways with
many more impaired drivers, you're gonna have a lot more carnage.
So that's that's one of the factors. It's not the
only one. The left undermining law enforcement over the last
ten to fifteen years has obviously dramatically impacted the safety
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on our roadways. Because if these killers are willing to
kill you and your family, you know, just so they
can get the thrill of driving, you know, one hundred
hundred and twenty five miles an hour in and out
of traffic, or they're high and.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
They're just they think it's a video game.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
If they believe there's no way they're going to get caught,
then they're going to be much more likely to do it.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
We all know that.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
We all experience it on the road stand back in
the eighties when we had drivers ad and auto shop
would work, et cetera. In high school, and people were
expected to speak English. The roads were safer, Dan, the
reason for so many idiots on the road are those
safety device and Darwin's theory. Back in the day, the
idiots were eliminated because of no airbags. Today the idiots
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walk away and will not learn. It's an amazing phenomenon.
I've seen in my cases now for forty plus years
that very often the hitter the killers maybe they may
maybe they paralyzed, but the people who inflict all this
awful carnage. The hitters walk away, right and it's the
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innocent victim who has been t boned or the innocent
victim who's been plowed into from behind. It eighty five
miles an hour, but so often the hitters just walk away.
Dan csp doesn't write tickets and jurisdictions that don't prosecute
II denvers as a texter. I don't know if that's
correct or not. We're blessed with many law enforcement listeners.
(32:58):
Maybe somebody can shoot me note and tell me Dan
was the cheeto driver illegal. I told the story earlier
of this. I do a lot of trucking cases here
and elsewhere. And the trucking case where the driver Denver
Area had been driving full highway speed in a semi
rush hour traffic and had gone nine seconds without looking
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at the road. He said he was picking up cheetos
and killed a man. And on the civil side we
were able to get it very very very strong recovery.
But the man's dead, right, And my point in that
story was he didn't do a day in jail. But no,
he was not illegal. He was legal, and he was
working for a very big company. But if and it's
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human nature right that if there's no real threat of
severe enforcement, some people are just going to be more
likely to.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Do reckless things.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
If routinely in Colorado people who killed people like that
were going to jail, the word would spread, The word
would spread over five or ten years, everybody would know
what Bobby or Billy Asusia Jane who was leading normal
life and then did a year or two in jail
for killing somebody, and people would drive more carefully. But
so many people killing Colorado and never go to jail,
And don't blame the judges.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Let's go to uh, Let's go to Bob.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
You're on the Dane caplis and show Welcome Bob, and
I hesitated because we're getting a mix of calls on
driving in on Victor Marks being declared the winner in
the governor's race.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Will shift to that the Victor.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Marx Governor's race topic at five oh six, Welcome Bob, Dad.
Speaker 7 (34:34):
I love, I love, I'm always admired you. I know
where great or you are. But here's here's my two points.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (34:40):
I totally believe you. We don't do anything to unfortunate.
But Chaffel has free Bill, my wife and Hernan Pope
and lawyer's working at that Bill fast. Here's a problem
I have. Has it helped? It's helped, But why do
we not have the same type of one week Jane
or whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
To say, like we do?
Speaker 6 (34:58):
Do you?
Speaker 7 (34:58):
Eys?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (34:59):
Man, go out watch all these every day a minimum
of forty two by Selphy. What's the phone in the hand?
Looking down? You can always tell they're on their phone
because they're looking in their lat yep and you know
it's my old boys. We don't. We don't. I agree
with you. We don't put people in jail, but we don't.
We make all these ads, but we don't enforce them.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Amen a lot, Amen, Amen, and thanks for what you've done.
And there should be mandatory jail, mandatory jail for so
many different driving offenses, and now people just kind of
skate on. It is outrageous and I want to break
those down. Hey five oh six, Ariy Armstrong from Independent
since to be with us. He's written a wonderful piece
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about the socialist fantasies of malt Kiros, who is now
the face of the Colorado Democrat Party which has become
the Colorado Democrats Socialist Party. And of course we'll devote
much of the hour to the breaking news Victor Marx,
now the GOP nominee for governor
This is Dan Kaplis and welcome to today's online podcast
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do we protect ourselves? We don't let people wrongfully kill
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our family members or wrongfully kill us. I mean, that's
at the heart of the American way, at the heart
of the Western ethic. So how did we ever get
to the point where we're willing to just sit back
like a bunch of sheep and accept all this carnage
on our roadways without even fighting back. I just don't
get it, truly, just from the mechanical psychological part of
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it to start with.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I don't get it. And then what are we going
to do to change it?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
I really want to focus on this lot during the
show today because I know you're probably listening from the.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Car or you were driving earlier.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
If you aren't listening now, and unless you're one of
those brave people serve in our police, fire, military, you're
in the most danger and your family's in the most
danger you ever will be when you're on Colorado's roads.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And this is the point.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
There's always some inherent danger, right, but you're in so
much more danger than you have to be on our roadways.
So how did we ever get to this point? And
what do we do to change it? I have a
lot of ideas on what we do to change it,
but how did.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
We get here? And I'd love to hear your ideas.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
On how to fix it as well, So we're going
to talk about that. I have the latest numbers in
front of me in terms of you know that death's
on our roadway each year, and other injury crashes on
our roadways each year, and DUI and d UID, which
is of course drugs and teens. And that's part of
what triggered this conversation today. I talk about this a
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lot on air for obvious reasons, Right, It's so important
to you and your family, and we all have a
perspective on it because we all live it.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
We live the bad parts of it. And you know,
I mean, if there's.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
One common denominator now, just an epidemic, an explosion in
these cycle killers who don't care at all about the
life of your children, or your wife, or your husband
or your family who are just weaving in and out
of traffic it well over one hundred miles an hour.
Sometimes they're in fancy sports cars or big trucks. Very
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often they're in cars that may cost less than the
dinner they just had.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
But one thing's clear.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
They don't care about their life and they don't care
about yours. And we've seen this explosion in that, right,
you know it. You see it all the time. I
was trying to count it up a week or two ago.
Something got me triggered on it, and it had to
be an average of once a day I had somebody
flying by me at well over one hundred weaving in
and out of traffic. And then we have the subset
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of that, which is the true insanity. I don't even
want to call it motorcycles, right because you have this whole,
this whole world of really responsible bikers, you know, who
are out there operating responsibly.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
They're not the issue.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
The issue is the explosion of normally these younger people
in these crowch rockets. And then of course we've all
experienced it where they take over a roadway, pop and
wheelies everything else, and that can be a nuisance, but
it's not that dangerous. What is dangerous is the in
and out of traffic get one hundred mile an hour stuff,
and with bikes, we all know it gets a lot
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faster than that.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So yeah, I want to.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Talk today about what we do to fix it, and
we'll have this local I think it's a Channel seventh
story about that. The new requirements that just kicked in
July one for kids to have to have more drivers
add before they get their license. To me, whose bright
idea was it to ever stop that? I mean, you
just look at the numbers of team drivers involved in crashes,
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team drivers involved in fatals, team drivers causing fatals, and
it's like, my lord, a society that won't protect its children.
And I've been saying the same thing for years about marijuana.
You know, a state that will not protect its children,
what good is it? And I truly don't get that,
because honestly, I came here from Chicago.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
You know, I grew up in Chicago. My dad was
a cop.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
My mom could have been anything and chose to give
it all up to raise us and at the greatest
childhood imaginable, And then I was a golf caddy.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
If you ever saw the movie Caddyshack.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You know, it's about a kid competing for a golf
scholarship and so much more.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
And I competed for that scholarship.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Bill Murray's brother was competing for the same scholarship about
the same time, the Evans scholarship, and I was blessed
to win it, and they shipped me out to Colorado.
And I literally I thank God every single day, every
single day since.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
They sent me out to Colorado to go to see
U Boulder. So I'm grateful to be here.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I am grateful to be here, and I think about
all the positive stuff every day.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But then I just sit back and say, what is.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
It about our state where we'll put up with this stuff?
Is it that it's so beautiful here that there's just
sort of a mellowness that kicks in and we just
accept all this stuff that no society in its right
mind would accept. You know what is it about Colorado?
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (05:17):
In my mind, the good outweighs the bad a million
times over. That's why I'm still here. But that doesn't
mean we should just accept the bad, especially when it
kills people. And if it doesn't kill them physically. With
so many kids, it strips them of their ambition, which
equals their future at least as brighter future as they
would have had. Yes, So, and how did we ever
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get to the point? I mean, I know they'll blueprint
in that whole story. I was here when the Dems
pulled off this plan with a whole bunch of money.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
To take over the state. I get that, But how
has it stuck?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I mean, how did we ever get to the point
where the Colorado GOP went from something that, Hey, you
can have your differences on policy or establishment versus grassroots,
but the Colorado GOP went from a point where it
was a powerhouse and no matter which you know, buckets
somebody fell into. If you're going to use sloppy broad labels,
you had, you know, real powerhouse people all the way around,
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winning a lot of races, et cetera. How do we
ever get to the point where that all fell apart?
And I think there are probably some common denominators in there,
but anyway, you know, kind of a broad question, but
it applies to so many different things, including these horrible
statistics on the deaths and injuries on our roadways, which
we we can make big improvement, right, I mean, it's
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never going to be perfect.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
It's just kind of inherent.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
When you're going to have all of these vehicles out there,
you know, weighing so much, and vehicles are bigger now
obviously go and sovest you're going to have some death
and destruction in the very best designed, best enforced process
that that's baked.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Into life, that's inherent in life.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
And then I think our obligation is to just make
it right when somebody does something wrong that takes somebody
life or cost them their ability to or living whatever,
to make it right. But it can be so much
safer than this right now, infinitely safer than it is
right now. And I know what I'm talking about because
that's been my real job for forty three years, is
representing people seriously hurt in motor vehicle crashes or the
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survivors of those killed. And I just know so many
more lives could be saved, so much easier. So what
do you think the cause is? What do you think
to fix? And I'm going to work in those numbers.
So we're going to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Throughout the show.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Got and I want to talk about this, not that
you care, maybe you do about Denver Public schools. I
think we all should what happens in Denver doesn't stay
in Denver, and each and every one of these little
kids that they're a precious.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Child of God and it is immoral that their.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Futures are being thrown away because they're caught up in
a public school system that, with some noble exceptions, a
public school system that is designed not for their benefit
but the benefit of the politicians, the benefit of the
Democratic Party, the benefit of the teachers' unions. That's sick.
It's just that's the twisted sister stuff. And it goes
back to how we started the show. If we can't
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just all across party lines say hey, kids, that's sacred stuff.
Right with kids.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
They're innocent, they're dependent on us, they have their whole
lives in front of them. That's kind of sacred stuff.
We should all agree on being able to protect them.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
First, not kill them before they're born, and second, once
they are born, make sure they have every opportunity to
have a real shot in life at their full potential.
Everybody from the malot curises of the world you know,
to the most staunched conservative should.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Agree on that.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
But think of the irony and Arie Armstrong's going to
join us from Complete Colorado at five oh six. He
has a great piece on Malotkiros and her socialist fantasy
now that she is the face of the Democratic Party
in Colorado. But think about the phoniness inherent in socialists,
the evil intended or not. Sometimes it's intended, sometimes it's
just the natural byproduct of socialism. But the phoniness right,
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because you get like, take them a lot cross, you
get them a lot Caros who claims to care about
the weak and defense us and the powerless and everything else,
But the.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Lives of these children mean nothing to her.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I've never met her. I am assuming that, inferring that,
concluding that from the position she takes right, Because if
the lives of the children meant something to her or
other socialists and democrats socialists that's what we have now
in Colorado, or elected democrats, well then they be acting
the opposite of the way they're acting, whether it comes
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to not killing them in large numbers before birth or
giving them true equal opportunity and education, which these socialists
and socialist democrats know they're never going to get in
our current public school system. No, they don't care about
these kids. At all, and hopefully more and more people
are seeing just how phony they are. So we got
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all that fun stuff ahead of us, and much more.
When I come back, I'll deep dive you into the
latest true stats on the desks and carnage on a roadway.
But above all, I want to light a candle and
talk about how do we fix it?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Got some ideas?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Three all three seven one three eight two five five
d an five seven seven three nine.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
You're on the Dan Caplis Show.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
And now back to the Dan Kapler Show podcast.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Teenagers wanting to get their drivers permit. We'll want to
listen to this. Starting January. First, all miners receiving their
permit will have to complete thirty hours of drivers ED
programs before receiving that permit. Your traffic reporter Brian Sharad
joins us live from Affordable Driving School in Parker and
Brian the state says this new law is needed to
provide education and safety training to our next generation of drivers.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Especially Michelle.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
When these are the teenagers as well, that's causing the
highest rate of crashes in Colorado. Carls State Control tells
me just last year, ten hundred of these trashes were
caused at my teenagers and are also saying, now this
is all because of distraction while they're driving, but also speeding.
So let's first break down this new law. If you're
a team between fifteen and seventeen years old, you must
complete a thirty hour education course. If you are eighteen
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to twenty years old, you must either complete a thirty
hour education course or a four hour awareness program. All
miners under twenty one must pass a motorcycle safety training program. Also,
anyone under the age of sixteen and a half and
trying to get their license must complete six hours behind
the wheel.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It's pitiful.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
First of all, we should have had this a long
time ago. What idiot decided not to Second? This is
nowhere near enough, is it. I mean, I'd love your
taking this, but when you're thinking of the stakes, like
is okay that kid's going to be alive or that
kid's going to be dead, or other people are going
to be alive or other people are going to be
dead based upon how well they drive, the stakes are
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way too high for this.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Wow, thirty hours is that enough?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
But that's one issue. The other issue is at least
they've gone back to having something, but the bigger fix,
the bigger problems that they they and so much mass
carnage on our roadways.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
What's the cause, what's the solution.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
I'm going to get you the latest stats as we
go through our calls and text three or three seven
one three eight two five five d an five seven
seven three nine. We'll start in Denver, color and a
perfect place to start since there is such an enormous
issue there, Bob, you're on the Dan Kaplis Show.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Welcome, Thank you, Dan. I just experienced some of this
the last few days. I was evacuated from the big fire,
so I drove to Denver yesterday. I drove from Denver
back to Pueblo back up here. Monday, I'm back in
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the Springs and back here and then whenever they let
me in, I'll be back. But most of what I've
seen is multiple things. First, the state of Colorado, I
believe the only requirement to get a driver's license is
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to have a pulse. People just have no idea what
they're doing. It doesn't matter how old they are. Something
I noticed just the past couple trips is these big
box trucks, three wheelers, three axles are bigger running in
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the left lane under the speed limit. There's no highway
patrol around doing anything about it, and everybody behind them
gets all ticked off and they start driving much more erradically.
And so I think we need generally a lot stiffer
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laws for violations, including mandatory jail time for stuff, especially
picking up a phone and talking or texting on it,
and uh, just much better enforcement of new laws.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Well said my friend. Now let me ask you, did
you lose your home in this fire?
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (14:29):
We got a well we didn't. Our insurance guy got
a satellite picture. It says the house is still there. Good,
but we're kind of almost in the middle of this fire. Wow.
When it started, well, and it was Monday, a week
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ago when I was removed, and that was the day
it started.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Well, I'm so glad you made it. So glad you
made it out, my friend, very thing. And I'm actually
at a case where unfortunately the people did not make
it out, and that it's just a horrific, horrific way
to go. So glad that Bob Didney's right. Don't target
on a bunch of things, and listen, I think we
can all agree on this, right, that that at the
core of the just rapid escalation of craziness on our roadways.
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Is the fact that the Left has undermined law enforcement,
and so we don't have the same enforcement on our
roadways because the left has undermined their budgets, the left
has undermined support for law enforcements, so law enforcement officers
don't feel as free to lean forward in enforcement, and
as a result, we don't have nearly enough enforcement. Don't
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blame law enforcement, Blame the left, Blame the politicians. But
that's the reality. Because you've got all these you know
it just reckless, you know, would be killers out on
our roadways right now. Just figure they can get away
with it, and figure and you can get away with it.
And I don't want to divert into this too much,
but it's important because I do a lot of trucking
(16:01):
cases here and.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Around the country.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
And I will tell you the message that Jared Polis
sent to the underbelly of the trucking world, which I'd
estimate to be about thirty thirty five percent of the
trucking world. He got about sixty sixty five percent that
are heroic and perform a vital public service. He got
thirty thirty five percent it is a clear and present danger.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
To your family. And when Jared Polis.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Decided to take this mass killing trucker who knew that
his truck was unsafe, he got out of the truck
because he was told not to get back into it.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
He knew his breaks weren't working.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
He got back in anyway, and then he decides to
plow into the back of stopped rush hour traffic rather
than put it in a ditch. And Jerry and Jefferson
County Democrat prosecutor took a cup of coffee to.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Convict him because his guilt was so clear.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
And then Jared Polis gets Kim Kardashian whispers in his ear,
steps in and cuts this guy sentenced by ninety five percent?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
What message do you think that sent.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
To the under belly of the trucking industry nationwide? So
there are all sorts of things that combine to make
our roads so much more dangerous than they need to be.
But I appreciate Bob's call because he's starting to get
into some of the particulars here that really do matter.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Also really do matter. I want to get to some
text on it as well.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
As we talk about the fixes, Dan, we also have
many illegals driving without a valid license and insurance. We
also have illegals to pay quote driving schools to not
validly pass the written and physical driving test. Coloraders should
do undercover operations to shut down these bs driving schools.
That from Alexa and Alex a great point, but you
(17:37):
know that's not going to happen because the state right now,
the Democrats socialists who control Colorado, have made a decision
that folks here illegally are more important than folks here legally.
And I know that's a totally upside down world, but
they've made that decision for their own perpetuation of power,
right because they want to attract more folks to come
(17:58):
to Colorado illegally and more folks who are in the
country legally to choose Colorado because they believe that will
then expand the Democrats socialist base. So it's just another
way that the left in Colorado puts the lives of
folks here illegally ahead of those here legally and listen to,
(18:21):
every single life is precious passing here in dignity. I
just think it's fundamentally wrong, and the people in power
to say, oh no, these people's lives over here are
going to be more important.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Than those people's lives. But that's what they do. You're
on the Dan Capla Show.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
You're listening to the Dan Kaplis Show podcast.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Because What's the Fix?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
And hooked today as we're talking about finally that they
have some easily little requirements for teenagers who are just
getting their permits now thirty hours of drivers ed re acquired.
That story we listened to us was kind of funny
in the sense that if you're eighteen to twenty, you've
got a choice between the thirty hours or a four
(19:09):
hour course. Can't imagine which one people are going to choose.
But bigger question, all right, what's the cause? What's the fix?
And I want to get you some of these numbers
as we talk about it, I'll work in text as well.
I cannot think of a subject that that is probably
more relevant to you and me and our families and
our lives, because we are never in more danger than
(19:30):
we are when we are out on these Colorado roadways,
and there's so much more dangerous than they need to be.
So just a couple of flash things twenty ten, twenty ten.
Zach Zech is a brilliant brilliant young talent who is
producing this show and behind the glass now, Zach, twenty ten,
how many deaths do you think we had on annual
(19:53):
on Colorado roads twenty ten and our population then was
five twenty nine? Well, fortunately not four hundred and forty eight,
four hundred and forty eight deaths a year.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I don't know what I was thinking. I was thinking
like nationwide, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I think that's right. I think you were. And then
a number of crashes in Colorado would be like a
little over one hundred thousand, hundred four thousand. That's in
twenty ten. And our population back then was like five million,
maybe five million, fifty thousand now twenty twenty five, how
many deaths do you think we have on our.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
Roadways considerably more like with seven fifty you said four
hundred rights for seven to fifty maybe.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Yeah, good, good guess.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Or up to six hundred and seventy seven for forty
eight and twenty ten, six seventy seven in twenty twenty five.
Now we've had a population growth, right, we were at
five million in twenty ten and we're at six million
in twenty twenty five. But that still goes beyond population
growth But here's the point. It's also think about how
(20:56):
dramatically the safety of cars, like occupant protection safety has
increased since twenty ten. It's been a tremendous blessing. It's dramatic.
And I know during all of those years and many others,
that's all I do day in and day out, is
it's not the only type of case I do, but
represent people in serious and in fatal crash cases, and
(21:19):
I can tell you the improvement in motor vehicle safety
has been a gift from above. And the fact that
our numbers are going up and even exceeding the rate
of population growth at a time when vehicles are getting
so much more safe, it just reinforces that we've just
kind of surrendered our roadways.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Why have we done that? Don't blame law enforcement? Why
have we done that? Obviously the left has for all
of its own twisted reasons.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
But why have we let them do it? Why isn't
this more of an issue? Why isn't it more of
an issue in elections? I can't remember it ever being
talked about in elections.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yes, so.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Why and what's the fix? Three H three seven one
three eight two five five D A N five seven, seven,
three nine, start with a couple of fixes. Right now,
maybe it's going to take a ballot issue because you know, Democrats,
socialists controlled the state and they have no interest in
doing anything which would punish anybody other than Tina Peters
(22:21):
for anything, right, So they're not going to do anything here,
and people would be shocked to find out. I share
hope they never ever do that. Right now, there are
a whole lot of people, a whole lot of people
killing people on Colorado's roadways who never go to jail
for a day, clearly at Faull, never go to jail
for a day doing shocking, crazy, insane things.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Zach, I'll give you examples.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
And do not blame the judges because they they're they're
bound by the law, they're handed by our legislature. Do
not blame law enforcement that they have had their support
undermined by the left. But Zach will give you example, okay,
And there are so many to choose from. How about
this one amazing man, amazing man, and he's going out
to work, he works hard, wonderful family, and he's going
(23:09):
out to work and he's out there on seventy and
he's driving toward the airport. And here you have somebody
driving a semi, driving a semi for a very big company,
and that person driving the semi, they took their eyes
off the roads.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Beat this out of them in a deposition.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Took their eyes off the road for nine seconds driving
at full highway speeds in a semi.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Were they texting? Why were they? Were they looking for
nine sudsy excuse?
Speaker 1 (23:39):
The testimony under oath was I dropped my bag of
Cheetos and I was picking it up. But I was
able to piece different things together through acident, reconstruction, etc.
Show this was a nine second period. Now I'm with you,
it was probably that's ridiculous. And listen, we of course
in all these cases, we go out, we subpoena all
of the devices, the memories, everything else, so we gather
(24:00):
all the electronic evidence. But but yeah, that was his
excuse nine seconds full highway speed in a semi. So
of course he rear ends this guy and it's horrific
and that this great soul.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Is lost, not a day in jail. And I, you know,
I pushed the DA for a meeting.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
We had a big meeting with the elected DA, with
people from law enforcement, with all sorts of other people.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
This just cannot happen.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
And in the end, yeah, not a day, not a
day in jail. And big well, there's a big hole
in our traffic laws in Colorado when it comes to punishment,
when it comes to what can be successfully prosecuted as
vehicular homicide vehicular assault. I think that was a case
where the DA should have prosecuted it that way for sure,
(24:50):
But the hole in the law makes it harder on das.
And yeah, it's so people have no where People just assume, okay,
howbody drives are ecosy and kill somebody on a roadways,
They're going to jail. No, the vast majority of the time,
not a day in jails.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I can't insane.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I can't imagine being that guy's family.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Oh yeah, and I can tell you so many other stories.
So we go and we do everything we can on
the civil side to the max. But at the end
of the day, you know, and this is money that
lets people keep their family together, keep a roof over
their head, and move forward in life.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
But at the end of the day, they want their
love run back. And what's.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Causing so many more people to be killed on a
roadways as people aren't hearing the stories. People aren't hearing
the stories of Oh, hey, you know Billy over there.
He's in jail now for a couple of years, okay,
because he was texting while he was driving and he
killed somebody.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
No, because Billy probably didn't go to jail for an hour.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
That's insane.
Speaker 8 (25:51):
There's a loss of life. I feel like, find some
extreme circumstance. You have to do some time.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
You got to, you absolutely have to. Yeah, it's enormous,
enormous holes in our law.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
Not treating it like first degree murder where they're locked
up for forty years or they're on death row. I
get that, but they need to be seen sometime. That's Ridiculousyeah.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Another one with the trucker, you know, kills multiple people,
multiple people on the roadway. It's a scene straight out
of hell, Straight out of hell. And we ended up
in that case and great judge, great cherry, courageous clients.
We ended up by the largest still I think truck
and verdict in Colorado history, on the civil.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Side, but on the criminal side, not a day in jail.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
And I got to say, everyone will talk about how
Jared Puls's legacy is going to be Tina Peters, either
positively or negatively, however you fall on that. It's crazy
to me that that story that I think is fairly
inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, is his legacy
when again, like he got a letter from Kim Kardashi
and like.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
That's ridiculous, right, I think it was more than a letter,
my friend. But yeah, yeah, I'm talking about whispering in
his ear, and you know, just the lure of being
in with a Hollywood star and all of that. But
it is and I'm with Zach on that, you know,
I think that Tina Peters is going to cement Polus's
legacy with the left in Colorado because they hate her
(27:16):
so much. But in terms of the state, You've led
us to a good question as well, zech what do
you think the.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Legacy of police will be in this state? And why.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
I don't think it's going to be Tina Peters for
the broader population. I think for the Democrats socialists to
run the state, it's Tina Peters. And listen, if you're
new to this show, thank you. But I'm not a
Tina Peters fan. I've enjoyed it when i've had her
on air, and my heart breaks for as a gold
star mom. But I think she committed a serious crime
and deserved to be prosecuted and convicted. She did not
deserve to do that long in jail as a seventy
(27:51):
year old first time offender in a nonviolent offense. You know,
when you have so many lefties committing worse offenses, they
don't do any jail. No, that that was wrong, But no,
I think his legacy, more broadly, will be defined by
other things.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I bet you his x as.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Many more Colorados will remember him spitting in the face
of the victims and spitting on the graves of the
victims burned to death on the highway by that mass
killing trucker because Kim Kardashian whispers in his hair.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
But more broadly, what do you think Polus's legacy will be?
And why?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
So? We're going to continue our focus on Colorado roads.
I'm going to continue to get you these latest statistics
which just confirm we got to do better than this.
We can do better than this. So much unnecessary death
on our roadway? How do we fix it?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
You're on the Dan Kapli Show.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Now back to the Dan Kapler Show podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Associated Press has declared a winner in the Colorado GOP primary,
and that is Victor Marx. So Victor Marx is now
the GOP nominee. I would say officially, because I think
it's certain at this point, but it's not official in
this of the Secretary of State making the declaration. But
Victor has extended his lead over Barb during this cure
(29:08):
period counting so at this point eight five to twoh
five five seven zero, And I'm quoting the Ernest Lunging
piece in Colorado Politics and Ernest saying that this falls
well outside of the margin that would trigger and automatic recounts.
So congratulations to Victor Marx. And then you know, well,
(29:32):
obviously with this breaking news, we'll flow with that and
turn the conversation. I want to get to some text
on our critical issue of safety on our roadways, and
I'll get to those stats that I put together for
you as well. If not today, I depending on how
many people want to talk about this breaking news. If
a whole lot too, then I'll probably get back to
(29:52):
these statistics tomorrow. If nobody wants to talk about it,
I'll do it now. But that's a big deal. That's
a big deal. You know, an outsider came in and
won the Colorado GOP primary for governor against a highly respected,
very accomplished, very impressive, you know, woman who had a
long history of public service in various elective offices. And
(30:15):
so I think there are a lot of lessons to
be learned from this, or, if not to be learned,
to be confirmed. Right, And so let's have that conversation.
Why do you think Victor won? And what advice would
you give to Victor and his campaign going up against
Phil Wiser. We'll start with that three oh three seven
one three eight two five five d an five seven
(30:38):
seven three nine as Zach seekers behind the glass, lines
up calls and the text phil in I want to
get to a few of these texts on safety on
our roadways, which I think we all agree at this
point is just abysmal.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
It's fallen apart.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Don't blame law enforcement, Blame the left that's undermined him,
and blame a lot of other things, but don't blame
law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Says Dan.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
I absolutely agree that driving on Colorado roads is my
biggest fear. I've lived most of my life driving all
over Colorado roads, and I'm increasingly terrified to drive because
of careless distracted drivers. Yeah, and it's gotten a whole
lot worse. We all know that, right, and why and
how do we fix it?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Now? We know and it's just common sense.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
That the big mistake legalization of marijuana is going to
lead to much more carnage on our roadways. And it
has right. If you're going to inject the roadways with
many more impaired drivers, you're gonna have a lot more carnage.
So that's that's one of the factors. It's not the
only one. The left undermining law enforcement over the last
ten to fifteen years has obviously dramatically impacted the safety
(31:38):
on our roadways. Because if these killers are willing to
kill you and your family, you know, just so they
can get the thrill of driving, you know, one hundred
hundred and twenty five miles an hour in and out
of traffic, or they're high and.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
They're just they think it's a video game.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
If they believe there's no way they're going to get caught,
then they're going to be much more likely to do it.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
We all know that.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
We all experience it on the road stand back in
the eighties when we had drivers ad and auto shop
would work, et cetera. In high school, and people were
expected to speak English. The roads were safer, Dan, the
reason for so many idiots on the road are those
safety device and Darwin's theory. Back in the day, the
idiots were eliminated because of no airbags. Today the idiots
(32:18):
walk away and will not learn. It's an amazing phenomenon.
I've seen in my cases now for forty plus years
that very often the hitter the killers maybe they may
maybe they paralyzed, but the people who inflict all this
awful carnage. The hitters walk away, right and it's the
(32:38):
innocent victim who has been t boned or the innocent
victim who's been plowed into from behind. It eighty five
miles an hour, but so often the hitters just walk away.
Dan csp doesn't write tickets and jurisdictions that don't prosecute
II denvers as a texter. I don't know if that's
correct or not. We're blessed with many law enforcement listeners.
(32:58):
Maybe somebody can shoot me note and tell me Dan
was the cheeto driver illegal. I told the story earlier
of this. I do a lot of trucking cases here
and elsewhere. And the trucking case where the driver Denver
Area had been driving full highway speed in a semi
rush hour traffic and had gone nine seconds without looking
(33:20):
at the road. He said he was picking up cheetos
and killed a man. And on the civil side we
were able to get it very very very strong recovery.
But the man's dead, right, And my point in that
story was he didn't do a day in jail. But no,
he was not illegal. He was legal, and he was
working for a very big company. But if and it's
(33:44):
human nature right that if there's no real threat of
severe enforcement, some people are just going to be more
likely to.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Do reckless things.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
If routinely in Colorado people who killed people like that
were going to jail, the word would spread, The word
would spread over five or ten years, everybody would know
what Bobby or Billy Asusia Jane who was leading normal
life and then did a year or two in jail
for killing somebody, and people would drive more carefully. But
so many people killing Colorado and never go to jail,
And don't blame the judges.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Let's go to uh, Let's go to Bob.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
You're on the Dane caplis and show Welcome Bob, and
I hesitated because we're getting a mix of calls on
driving in on Victor Marks being declared the winner in
the governor's race.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Will shift to that the Victor.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Marx Governor's race topic at five oh six, Welcome Bob, Dad.
Speaker 7 (34:34):
I love, I love, I'm always admired you. I know
where great or you are. But here's here's my two points.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (34:40):
I totally believe you. We don't do anything to unfortunate.
But Chaffel has free Bill, my wife and Hernan Pope
and lawyer's working at that Bill fast. Here's a problem
I have. Has it helped? It's helped, But why do
we not have the same type of one week Jane
or whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
To say, like we do?
Speaker 6 (34:58):
Do you?
Speaker 7 (34:58):
Eys?
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (34:59):
Man, go out watch all these every day a minimum
of forty two by Selphy. What's the phone in the hand?
Looking down? You can always tell they're on their phone
because they're looking in their lat yep and you know
it's my old boys. We don't. We don't. I agree
with you. We don't put people in jail, but we don't.
We make all these ads, but we don't enforce them.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Amen a lot, Amen, Amen, and thanks for what you've done.
And there should be mandatory jail, mandatory jail for so
many different driving offenses, and now people just kind of
skate on. It is outrageous and I want to break
those down. Hey five oh six, Ariy Armstrong from Independent
since to be with us. He's written a wonderful piece
(35:39):
about the socialist fantasies of malt Kiros, who is now
the face of the Colorado Democrat Party which has become
the Colorado Democrats Socialist Party. And of course we'll devote
much of the hour to the breaking news Victor Marx,
now the GOP nominee for governor
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