Hit while riding on US 36, Wadsworth Boulevard, the Northwest Parkway corridor, or a Broomfield trail? Insurers start from the assumption that the cyclist was careless. We start from the evidence and use Colorado's cycling laws to put fault where it belongs. Serving Broomfield County from our Denver office. No fee unless we win.
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CGH Injury Lawyers represents injured cyclists throughout Broomfield County from our Denver office at 2701 Lawrence St., Suite 201. Broomfield sits at the crossroads of US 36, the Northwest Parkway, and I-25, with the Denver-Boulder Turnpike running through the heart of the city and documented winter black-ice risk near the Church Ranch Boulevard exit. Our attorneys serve on the CDOT Vulnerable Road User Safety Task Force, and we use the Safety Stop law, the 3-foot rule, and the e-bike statutes to push fault back onto the driver where it belongs. Free first consultation, and no fee unless we win.
Colorado's most misunderstood cycling law is the Safety Stop (C.R.S. 42-4-1412.5), sometimes called the Idaho Stop. It changes how bicycles interact with stop signs and red lights, and it is one of the strongest tools we have for defeating bad-faith fault claims against Broomfield riders.
Insurance adjusters often claim a cyclist ran a stop sign or blew a red light to shift fault after a collision. The Safety Stop law is your shield. If you slowed, checked for traffic, and yielded at a stop sign on a corridor like 160th Avenue and Huron Street or 120th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard, you were complying with Colorado law. Our attorneys reconstruct the scene, obtain witness statements, and prove you used the discretion the statute grants. That work is critical under Colorado's modified comparative negligence rule, where being found 50 percent or more at fault bars any recovery.
The Safety Stop is not a free pass. Entering an intersection without slowing or checking is still reckless, still illegal, and can be used against you in a liability claim. We need to know exactly how you approached the intersection so we can build the record before an insurer rewrites it.
Colorado law gives cyclists the same rights as motor vehicles under Title 42, and it places specific duties on drivers to protect vulnerable road users. These rules decide who is at fault when a car hits a rider in Broomfield.
Drivers must leave at least three feet of clearance when passing a cyclist. If the lane is too narrow to do that while staying in the lane, the driver must change lanes or wait. A violation is direct evidence of negligence, and we use dashcam footage, witnesses, and accident reconstruction to prove it on roads like US 36 and Wadsworth Boulevard.
Cyclists may occupy the center of a traffic lane when conditions make it the safe choice. Drivers who honk, tailgate, or try to squeeze past a cyclist who is legally in the lane may be liable for harassment or endangerment.
Colorado law permits cyclists to ride side by side unless it impedes the normal and reasonable movement of traffic. On wide roads and group rides, riding two abreast is legal and often safer, because it shortens the distance a driver must cover to pass.
Bicycles ridden between sunset and sunrise must have a front light and a rear reflector. Failure to use lights can reduce your recovery in a nighttime crash, though it rarely eliminates liability on its own.
Electric bicycles are regulated separately from traditional bikes in Colorado. The state recognizes three classes based on motor assistance and top assisted speed, and the class can affect a liability dispute on Broomfield's roads and trails.
Pedal-assist only. The motor helps while you pedal and stops assisting at 20 mph. Class 1 e-bikes are the most widely permitted, including on many trails.
Throttle-assisted. The motor can move the bike without pedaling and stops assisting at 20 mph. Many trails restrict Class 2 e-bikes.
Pedal-assist up to a higher 28 mph top assisted speed. Class 3 e-bikes face the most trail restrictions and are usually limited to roads and bike lanes.
Many Colorado trails restrict Class 2 and Class 3 e-bikes. Riding a non-compliant e-bike on a restricted trail can bring fines and can complicate liability if you collide with a pedestrian or another cyclist.
If a car hits you while you ride an e-bike on a public Broomfield road, your e-bike class generally does not affect your right to recover damages, as long as you were riding lawfully. If you were on a Class 3 e-bike on a trail that bans them, an insurer may argue you were trespassing or acting recklessly. We know how to answer that argument.
A Broomfield bicycle case lives in Broomfield County: the corridors where crashes happen, the courthouse where your case may be filed, and the trauma centers that treat the injuries. This is the ground we work on.
Courthouse
Broomfield is Colorado's 64th county, a consolidated city-county incorporated on November 15, 2001. Personal injury cases arising in Broomfield are filed in the Broomfield Combined Courts, which house the District Court, County Court, and Municipal Court under one roof at 17 Descombes Drive, Broomfield, CO 80020. The court sits in the 17th Judicial District. We handle Broomfield Combined Court cases directly from our Denver office.
Trauma Care
Broomfield cyclists seriously hurt in a crash have access to two CDPHE-designated Level II Trauma Centers. Intermountain Health Good Samaritan Hospital has received recertification as a Level II Trauma Center from the American College of Surgeons. Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital achieved its Level II designation from CDPHE in June 2021, upgraded from Level III. Both facilities are proximate to Broomfield's US 36 and I-25 corridors. The medical records from these centers document the full scope of your injuries and become the spine of your damages claim.
High-Risk Roads
Broomfield's road network creates concentrated crash risk for riders. US 36 (the Denver-Boulder Turnpike) is a high-speed commuter corridor where freezing drizzle has formed black ice before snow accumulation, with fatal crashes documented near the Church Ranch Boulevard exit. The Northwest Parkway is a 9.05-mile limited-access toll road with both termini in Broomfield. SH 121 (Wadsworth Boulevard) and US 287 (overlapping SH 128 and the 120th Avenue corridor) are flagged in Broomfield's Transportation Plan as high-crash locations, along with 120th Avenue and Wadsworth Boulevard, and 160th Avenue and Huron Street. These multi-lane roads put riders close to fast traffic, which is exactly where 3-foot violations and right-hook turns produce serious bicycle injuries.
Crash Reports
A bicycle crash within Broomfield is typically documented by the Broomfield Police Department, with the Colorado State Patrol responding on the state highway and interstate segments. The Colorado Traffic Crash Report is the first official record of what happened and a central piece of evidence. Request the report number at the scene if you can. When weather or road conditions contributed to the crash, we work to document them through CDOT maintenance records and weather data, because a dangerous condition can shift fault away from the rider.
We serve Broomfield from our Denver office. Trial-ready attorneys, bilingual help, and no fee unless we win. We do not publish bicycle settlement figures, because every rider injury is different and a number on a page tells you nothing about your case. What we offer is the work, not a headline.
The Law
We use C.R.S. 42-4-1412.5 and C.R.S. 42-4-1003 to defeat the adjuster's reflexive claim that the Broomfield rider was at fault.
17th Judicial District Ready
Broomfield cases file in the 17th Judicial District at 17 Descombes Drive. As Colorado's consolidated city-county, Broomfield has its own combined court. We handle these cases directly from our Denver office and know the local procedural environment.
Task Force
Our attorneys serve on the CDOT Vulnerable Road User Safety Task Force, working to improve cyclist protections statewide.
UM/UIM
In a hit-and-run or minimal-limits crash, your own UM/UIM coverage can pay even though you were on a bike. We find every policy.
Trial-Ready
Managing Partner Kevin Cheney is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and has tried over 25 cases to verdict. Timothy G. Tarr has been recognized by Best Lawyers every year since 2023. When attorneys are genuinely prepared to try a case in Broomfield Combined Courts, insurers respond differently to a demand.
Bilingual
Spanish-speaking attorneys and staff serve Broomfield's Spanish-speaking community.
No Win, No Fee
You pay nothing out of pocket for legal fees. We advance costs and collect only from a settlement or verdict.
The minutes and hours after a crash can make or break your case. These steps protect your health and preserve the evidence an insurer will later try to dispute.
Request both police and medical help. A Colorado Traffic Crash Report from the Broomfield Police Department or Colorado State Patrol is critical evidence. Even if you feel fine, adrenaline can mask serious injuries.
Do not discuss fault with the driver or their insurer. Statements like "I'm sorry" or "I didn't see the car" can be used against you later under the comparative negligence rule.
Photograph the scene, your bike, your injuries, and the vehicle. Collect witness names and contacts. Keep your damaged gear; do not repair or discard it. On US 36 and the Northwest Parkway, CDOT cameras and toll-road systems may have captured the crash, and we move quickly to preserve that footage before it is overwritten.
Intermountain Health Good Samaritan Hospital and Intermountain Health Lutheran Hospital, both Level II Trauma Centers, serve the Broomfield area. Delayed symptoms such as concussions, internal bleeding, and soft-tissue injuries are common. See a doctor within 24 to 48 hours even if you feel okay.
Our attorneys review the police report, communicate with insurers, and protect your rights while you focus on recovery. Call (303) 209-9395 before you give any recorded statement. No fee unless we win.
When a driver hits a cyclist, the law lets the injured rider pursue the full cost of the harm. The question is how fault is divided and which insurance sources apply.
Colorado follows a modified comparative negligence rule (C.R.S. 13-21-111). You can recover damages as long as you are less than 50 percent at fault. If you are found 30 percent at fault, for example for not signaling a turn, your recovery is reduced by 30 percent. If you are found 50 percent or more at fault, you recover nothing. This is why the Safety Stop law and the 3-foot rule matter so much. They let us push fault back onto the driver where it belongs.
Many cyclists do not know this: your own auto insurance policy may cover you while you ride your bike. If an uninsured or underinsured driver hits you, your uninsured and underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) coverage can pay for medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering. That matters most in hit-and-run cases and when the at-fault driver carries minimal limits. Colorado's minimum liability limits for an at-fault driver are $25,000 per person and $50,000 per accident for bodily injury, which a serious bicycle injury can exhaust quickly. We help clients identify every available source, including homeowner's and umbrella policies, to reach a full recovery.
Can you still sue if you were not wearing a helmet? Yes. Colorado does not require adults to wear helmets while cycling, and not wearing one is not automatic negligence. Insurers will still argue that going without a helmet added to your injuries, especially in head-injury cases, a theory called failure to mitigate damages. It will not bar your claim, but it can reduce recovery under the comparative negligence rule. We work with medical experts to prove the extent of your injuries and to show that a helmet would not have prevented harm caused by the driver, such as spinal injuries, broken bones, or internal trauma.
Insurance adjusters reach for the same arguments every time a driver hits a rider. Knowing where they aim is the first step to defeating them.
The Safety Stop law (C.R.S. 42-4-1412.5) lets a cyclist treat a stop sign as a yield sign and proceed through a red light after stopping when it is safe. If you slowed, checked, and yielded, you were following the law. We reconstruct the intersection, gather witness statements, and show you used the discretion the statute grants rather than letting the adjuster recast lawful riding as a violation.
Colorado does not require adults to wear helmets, and going without one is not automatic negligence. What the insurer argues instead is failure to mitigate damages, meaning the injuries would have been less severe with a helmet. We connect the mechanism of injury to what a helmet would and would not have changed, and we challenge the insurer's fault calculation under C.R.S. 13-21-111.
Adjusters argue a rider was on the sidewalk illegally, took the lane improperly, or rode a restricted-class e-bike on a trail. Each of these is fact-specific. Cyclists have the same rights as motor vehicles under Title 42, may take the lane when conditions require it, and may ride two abreast within the statute. We document where you were and why it was lawful, so a placement argument does not quietly shift fault onto you.
One honest thing we will tell you up front: we do not take bicycle cases we cannot honestly stand behind. If your situation has a fatal legal problem, we will say so in the free review rather than sign you up and let the case stall. When the law is on your side, we fight hard. When it is not, you deserve to hear that early, for free.
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A bicycle accident lawsuit arising in Broomfield is filed in the Broomfield Combined Courts at 17 Descombes Drive, Broomfield, CO 80020, within the 17th Judicial District. Broomfield is Colorado's only consolidated city-county, so the Combined Courts handle district, county, and municipal matters in one building. Most bicycle claims settle before a lawsuit is ever filed, but venue affects the local rules and the jury pool. CGH Injury Lawyers handles Broomfield Combined Court cases directly from our Denver office.
Not automatically. Colorado's Safety Stop law (C.R.S. 42-4-1412.5) lets a cyclist treat a stop sign as a yield sign and proceed through a red light after stopping when it is safe. If you slowed, checked for traffic, and yielded to anyone with the right of way, you were following the law, not breaking it. Insurers reflexively claim a rider blew the sign to shift fault. We reconstruct the intersection, gather witness statements, and show you used the discretion the statute grants.
Often, yes. Colorado follows a modified comparative negligence rule (C.R.S. 13-21-111). You can recover as long as your share of fault is less than 50 percent, and your award is reduced by your percentage of fault. If you are found 50 percent or more at fault, you recover nothing. Broomfield insurers commonly inflate a cyclist's fault to cut payouts, and we use the Safety Stop law and the 3-foot rule to challenge that assignment.
Often, yes. If you carry uninsured or underinsured motorist (UM/UIM) coverage, it may pay your medical bills, lost wages, and pain and suffering when an uninsured or underinsured driver hits you, even though you were on a bike. This matters most in hit-and-run cases and when the at-fault driver has minimal limits. Colorado UM/UIM claims are governed by C.R.S. 13-80-107.5 under Pham v. State Farm, 2013 CO 17.
Colorado gives you three years from the date of the crash to file a lawsuit for injuries arising out of the use or operation of a motor vehicle (C.R.S. 13-80-101(1)(n)), which covers a driver who hits a cyclist. If a city of Broomfield vehicle, an RTD bus, or another government agency was involved, or a road or signal defect contributed, you must also provide written notice within 182 days of discovering the injury (C.R.S. 24-10-109(1)). Because evidence on corridors like US 36 and Wadsworth Boulevard degrades quickly, do not wait to consult an attorney.
Yes. Colorado does not require adults to wear helmets while cycling, and going without one is not automatic negligence. An insurer may argue that not wearing a helmet added to your injuries, which can reduce recovery under the comparative negligence rule (C.R.S. 13-21-111), but it does not bar your claim. We use medical experts to show the driver's negligence caused the harm.
Yes. CGH Injury Lawyers serves all of Broomfield County from our Denver office at 2701 Lawrence St., Suite 201. We handle Broomfield Combined Court cases in the 17th Judicial District directly. Our attorneys are licensed Colorado attorneys who handle every case personally, not paralegals, and several serve on the CDOT Vulnerable Road User Safety Task Force. Call (303) 209-9395 or submit your case online for a free review.
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