High-Risk Corridors
Eisenhower Boulevard, State Highway 402, and the United States Highway 287 couplet
The City of Loveland reports that from 2021 to 2025 an average of 1,601 crashes were reported each year, 37 of them involving a serious injury or a death. United States Highway 34 crosses the city as Eisenhower Boulevard, the commercial and commuter spine, while State Highway 402 runs an east-west route across the south side of town.
United States Highway 287 moves through downtown as a one-way pair rather than a single two-way arterial, and the City identifies Cleveland Avenue as the southbound side of it. One-way pairs and signalized highway arterials produce the collisions that most often end in a UM claim: rear-end impacts at a red light, turning conflicts across a through lane, and drivers who leave before anyone writes down a plate.
The Colorado Department of Transportation announced a signal replacement project at United States Highway 34 and North Van Buren Avenue and at State Highway 402 and South Boise Avenue, beginning January 6, 2025 and expected to last until the end of March.
Trauma Care
UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies, the Level I center inside the city
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's published list of designated trauma facilities carries UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies, at 2500 Rocky Mountain Avenue in Loveland, as a Level I facility, and it is the only designated trauma facility that list shows in Loveland. The state health department designates Colorado trauma centers and the American College of Surgeons verifies them, which are two separate processes.
Six facilities appear at Level I on that statewide list, and Loveland has one of them. A crash victim with severe injuries may therefore receive Level I care without leaving the city, and the record then follows a single chain of treatment rather than several. We collect that file in full before any demand goes out, because medical records carry the weight of the claim through trial.
Courthouse
Larimer County District Court, the 8th Judicial District, and the county court on East 10th Street
Personal injury cases arising in Larimer County may be filed in the Larimer County District Court, the 8th Judicial District, which the Colorado Judicial Branch lists at the Larimer County Justice Center, 201 LaPorte Ave, Suite 100, Fort Collins, CO 80521. The Branch lists a separate Loveland County Court at 810 E 10th Street, Suite 110, Loveland, CO 80537.
A court address inside Loveland does not by itself settle where a UM/UIM suit belongs. The defendant is your own insurer rather than the driver who hit you, and Colorado's venue rule allows more than one proper county. We handle cases filed in the 8th Judicial District, serving our Loveland clients from our Denver office.
A Plan in Progress
Streets the city is in the middle of changing
In 2022 the City of Loveland adopted the Roadmap to Safety, which it describes as a data-driven effort to identify and prioritize roadway safety improvements. The City has since received federal Safe Streets and Roads for All funding to develop a Roadway Safety Action Plan, now in a phase covering intersection design guidance, data refinement, and bikeway network evaluation.
Two demonstration projects sit inside that work. On Cleveland Avenue between United States Highway 34 and 1st Street the City describes changes that may rebalance roadway space and add intersection treatments using striping and flexible posts, and at Garfield Avenue and 10th Street it says a temporary roundabout will be installed to reduce speeds.
A street being reconfigured is a street whose layout on the date of your crash may not match the one an adjuster looks at months later. Photographs, dashcam video, and footage from businesses and private security systems fix the geometry as it actually was, which is why we ask for all of it early.
