Car crashes into church on Folsom
An SUV crashed near St. Aidan’s church on Folsom and Colorado earlier this afternoon.
Police arrested 73-year-old Brenda Geers as a suspect in the drunk driving accident that resulted in sending an 18-year-old victim to the hospital.
A Toyota that crashed into St. Aidan’s Wednesday afternoon. (CU Independent/Robert R. Denton)
Witnesses say that Geers was driving a 1998 Toyota 4Runner at 12:12 p.m. and collided with a food truck in the parking lot of St. Aidan’s Church. After hitting the food truck, Geers then hit 18-year-old Eric Anderson, a freshman at CU.
Geers was taken into custody under the suspicion of Vehicular Assault, DUI, and DUI Per Se. According to a Boulder PD news release, Geers said that she was on her way to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
Contact CU Independent Staff Writer Haleema Mian at Haleema.mian@colorado.edu.
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