Sheridan Boulevard in Mountain View, Colorado. CGH Injury Lawyers represents DUI crash victims in Mountain View and Jefferson County.

Mountain View, Jefferson County, Colorado

Mountain View DUI Accident Lawyers Who Pursue the Driver, the Bar, and Every Available Policy

Sheridan Boulevard and West 44th Avenue carry heavy traffic through Mountain View every day. When an impaired driver causes a crash on those corridors, you have a civil claim that runs completely separate from the criminal case. CGH Injury Lawyers serves Mountain View from our Denver office, pursues every defendant that Colorado law allows, and takes Jefferson County cases to trial when insurers refuse to be fair. No fee unless we win.

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When an impaired driver causes a crash on Sheridan Boulevard or West 44th Avenue, their violation of Colorado's drunk and drugged driving laws can itself establish negligence under the doctrine of negligence per se. The fight in most Mountain View DUI injury cases is about the harm and the dollars, not about who caused the crash.
Colorado gives you three years from the crash date to file a lawsuit against the at-fault driver (C.R.S. 13-80-101(1)(n)), but a claim against a bar or restaurant that overserved the driver must be filed within one year of when the alcohol was sold or served (C.R.S. 44-3-801(3)(a)(II)). These clocks run from different events.
If the drunk driver was uninsured or underinsured, your own UM and UIM coverage becomes a key source of recovery. UM and UIM claims run on their own accrual deadline under C.R.S. 13-80-107.5, the statute the Colorado Supreme Court applied in Pham v. State Farm, 2013 CO 17. A DUI crash near Mountain View can involve the driver's policy, a dram shop policy, and your own coverage all at once.

Mountain View is a 12-square-block Jefferson County enclave bordered by Sheridan Boulevard, a documented high-crash arterial, and West 44th Avenue, which absorbs I-70 overflow during peak commute hours. Impaired drivers moving through those corridors after leaving nearby bars create the same DUI injury pattern CGH Injury Lawyers handles across Colorado. We serve Mountain View from our Denver office at 2701 Lawrence St., Suite 201. There is no Mountain View office. We pursue the driver, any overserving bar, and every available insurance policy. You pay nothing unless we win.

Colorado follows the doctrine of negligence per se. When a person violates a safety statute that was designed to protect the public from a specific kind of harm, that violation can itself establish negligence in a civil claim. Drunk and drugged driving laws exist precisely to prevent impaired drivers from injuring others on roads like Sheridan Boulevard. An impaired driver who causes a crash on Mountain View's boundary corridors fits squarely within that doctrine.

In practical terms, you usually do not have to argue whether the impaired driver did something wrong. The fact of impairment, once established through the arrest record, toxicology results, and any criminal proceeding, does most of that work for you. The real fight in nearly every Mountain View DUI injury case is over two questions: how serious is your harm, and which insurance policies have to pay it.

Colorado also allows a criminal conviction or guilty plea to be used as evidence in your civil case. If the impaired driver pleads guilty or is convicted of a DUI charge in Jefferson County, that outcome strengthens your civil claim significantly. We do not wait for the criminal case to finish before protecting your civil rights. Evidence on Mountain View's busy arterials disappears within days.

The criminal case (not yours to control)

Brought by the State of Colorado through the Jefferson County District Attorney, not by you.
Goal is to punish the driver with jail time, fines, license consequences, and probation.
You are a witness and victim, not a party with control over the outcome.
The court may order restitution, but restitution is limited to documented out-of-pocket losses and paid by the driver personally, often slowly or partially.
A conviction or plea can become powerful evidence in your separate civil claim.

Your civil claim (yours to drive)

Brought by you against the driver, any overserving bar, and any other responsible party.
Goal is money: medical bills, lost income, pain, suffering, and every other harm the law allows.
Paid by insurance in the vast majority of cases, not out of the driver's personal funds.
Uses a lower standard of proof than the criminal case. More likely than not is enough.
Can proceed whether or not the driver is ever convicted. You do not have to wait.

Criminal restitution is not full compensation. It covers specific documented out-of-pocket losses and is collected from the driver personally, which often means months of partial payments. Your civil claim reaches the full range of harm and is paid by insurance, which has actual funds to pay it. Waiting for the criminal case to end before pursuing the civil claim is one of the most expensive mistakes a Mountain View crash victim can make. The one-year clock on a dram shop claim against a bar starts from when the alcohol was served, not from when the criminal case concludes.

The bar or restaurant: Colorado Dram Shop Act

Colorado's Dram Shop Act (C.R.S. 44-3-801) lets you sue a licensed vendor that willfully and knowingly served alcohol to a visibly intoxicated patron who then caused the crash.
The same statute covers service to anyone under 21. Under C.R.S. 44-3-801(4), even a social host who provides alcohol or a place to drink to a minor can face liability in that narrow circumstance.
A dram shop recovery is on top of whatever the driver's own policy pays, so it adds a second source of compensation to your claim.
The filing deadline for a dram shop claim is one year after the alcohol was sold or served (C.R.S. 44-3-801(3)(a)(II)). That clock starts from the night of the crash, not from any later date. Bar surveillance footage and point-of-sale records disappear in weeks. We start this investigation immediately.

Your own coverage: UM and UIM

If the drunk driver had no insurance, your uninsured motorist (UM) coverage steps into the at-fault driver's position and pays what that driver's policy would have paid.
If the driver had insurance but the limits are too low to cover your injuries, your underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage bridges the gap between their policy limit and your actual losses.
UM and UIM claims run on their own deadline under C.R.S. 13-80-107.5, the statute the Colorado Supreme Court applied in Pham v. State Farm, 2013 CO 17. That deadline is separate from the deadline against the driver and must be tracked independently.
Do not settle with the drunk driver's carrier before understanding how your own UM or UIM coverage applies. A premature settlement with the at-fault insurer can affect your rights under your own policy.

Where DUI crashes happen

Sheridan Boulevard and West 44th Avenue: Mountain View's highest-exposure corridors

Mountain View covers only 12 square blocks, bounded by Sheridan Boulevard to the east, West 44th Avenue to the north, West 41st Avenue to the south, and Fenton Street to the west. Sheridan Boulevard is a documented high-crash arterial that recorded 123 serious injuries or fatalities in recent years, with speeding, red-light running, and pedestrian crossing deficiencies among the cited contributing factors. West 44th Avenue absorbs I-70 overflow traffic during morning and evening commutes, peaking eastbound from 7:30 to 9:00 a.m. and in both directions from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Lakeside Amusement Park in adjacent Lakeside generates additional traffic surges on Sheridan Boulevard near Mountain View's northern boundary on summer evenings. Impaired drivers entering or leaving the area through these corridors create serious crash risk for everyone traveling on them.

Courthouse

Jefferson Combined Court, Golden

Mountain View is in Jefferson County. A DUI injury lawsuit that exceeds the county court jurisdictional limit is filed in Jefferson Combined Court at 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, CO 80401. Jefferson Combined Court is part of the First Judicial District, which serves Jefferson and Gilpin Counties. The filing deadlines, local rules, and jury pool are Jefferson County specifics, not Denver specifics. CGH Injury Lawyers handles Jefferson County cases directly and appears in that courthouse.

Trauma care

St. Anthony Hospital and Denver Health

The closest Level I Trauma Center to Mountain View is St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, designated by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. It is the primary trauma destination for serious crashes along the Sheridan Boulevard and I-70 corridor. Denver Health, verified by the American College of Surgeons and the State of Colorado as a Level I Adult and Level II Pediatric Trauma Center, also treats crash victims from the northwest Denver metro area, including pediatric trauma cases. Trauma records from either facility document the full scope of your injuries and become the backbone of the damages portion of your claim.

No local office

CGH Injury Lawyers does not have a Mountain View office

CGH Injury Lawyers has one office: 2701 Lawrence St., Suite 201, Denver, CO 80205. We serve Mountain View residents and DUI crash victims from that office. We do not have a Mountain View branch or local address. We handle Jefferson County cases directly, file in Jefferson Combined Court in Golden, and meet you wherever it is convenient. If a firm tells you they have a Mountain View address, verify it before you sign anything.

Call 911 and make sure impairment is documented

A police response creates a crash report that documents impairment indicators, field sobriety results, and any arrest. On Sheridan Boulevard, where traffic conditions are documented in city safety studies, an officer on scene also establishes the location context for your civil claim. Request a DUI investigation if you observe signs of impairment. Get the incident report number before leaving.
Go to St. Anthony Hospital or Denver Health right away

St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood is the Level I Trauma Center closest to Mountain View. Denver Health is a Level I Adult and Level II Pediatric Trauma Center also serving this corridor. Even if you feel functional, see a physician that same day. Traumatic brain injury, spinal trauma, and internal bleeding may not produce visible symptoms immediately. A gap between the crash and your first medical visit is one of the first arguments an insurer uses to minimize your injury claim.
Photograph everything and identify the source of alcohol

Photograph the vehicles, road conditions, traffic signals, and any visible injuries before the scene changes. If you observe signs the driver came from a bar or restaurant, note the establishment, document any receipts or containers in the vehicle, and identify witnesses who may have seen the driver drinking. Surveillance footage from Sheridan Boulevard businesses is overwritten in days or weeks. That footage can prove the driver entered your corridor impaired. We send preservation letters immediately after you contact us.
Track the one-year dram shop clock from day one

If a bar or restaurant overserved the driver, you have one year from when the alcohol was sold or served to file a dram shop claim (C.R.S. 44-3-801(3)(a)(II)). Many people wait for the criminal case to resolve before thinking about the bar, and by then the window has closed. We evaluate every potential defendant at the outset of your case, including the establishment that put that driver on Sheridan Boulevard.
Do not give a recorded statement to any insurance company

The drunk driver's insurer will call early with a recorded statement request or a settlement offer. Do not speak to them, sign anything, or accept any payment before consulting an attorney. A recorded statement becomes a tool for arguing your injuries were not caused by the crash or that you shared fault. Call (303) 209-9395 first. The consultation is free.

Economic damages (never capped)

Emergency treatment at St. Anthony Hospital or Denver Health
All medical expenses, past and future
Rehabilitation and physical therapy
Lost wages and lost earning capacity
Property damage to your vehicle
Funeral and financial losses in a fatal DUI crash

Non-economic damages (capped)

Pain and suffering
Emotional distress and PTSD, which are common after a violent impaired-driver crash
Loss of enjoyment of life
Loss of consortium for a spouse or family member

Caps, punitive damages, and how comparative fault applies

For claims accruing on or after January 1, 2025, Colorado caps non-economic damages such as pain and suffering at $1,500,000 under C.R.S. 13-21-102.5. Compensation for physical impairment or disfigurement is not subject to that cap. Economic damages such as medical bills and lost wages are never capped, and those uncapped categories typically represent the largest portion of a serious DUI injury recovery.
Drunk driving is the kind of willful and wanton conduct that can support punitive, or exemplary, damages on top of your compensatory recovery. Punitive damages in Colorado generally cannot exceed the amount of actual damages awarded (C.R.S. 13-21-102). We evaluate whether your case's specific facts support a punitive claim and pursue it where the evidence allows.
Colorado follows modified comparative fault (C.R.S. 13-21-111). You can still recover even if you were partly at fault in the crash, as long as you were less than 50 percent responsible. If you are found to be 50 percent or more at fault, you recover nothing. Against a driver who was legally impaired when they entered Sheridan Boulevard or West 44th Avenue, an insurer's effort to pin substantial fault on you usually has little factual support, and we use the crash evidence and DUI record to keep responsibility where it belongs.

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No Local Office

Serving Mountain View from Denver. That is the honest answer.

CGH Injury Lawyers does not have a Mountain View office. We serve Mountain View from our Denver office at 2701 Lawrence St., Suite 201, Denver, CO 80205. Call us at (303) 209-9395. Our attorneys handle Jefferson County DUI cases directly, including filing and appearing at Jefferson Combined Court in Golden. If any firm claims a Mountain View address, look it up before you sign a fee agreement.

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Recognized since 2023.

Timothy G. Tarr has been recognized by Best Lawyers every year since 2023. CGH is a eight-attorney Colorado firm founded in 2016, formerly Cheney Galluzzi and Howard. Every DUI injury case is handled by a licensed Colorado attorney.

Bilingual

Hablamos espanol.

Spanish-speaking staff and attorneys serve Mountain View and the wider Jefferson County community.

No Win, No Fee

Contingency only.

You pay nothing out of pocket for legal fees. We advance costs and collect only from a settlement or verdict in your favor.

What we will not do

We say no when the law does not support the claim.

If the facts show you were 50 percent or more at fault under C.R.S. 13-21-111, or the evidence does not support the claim, we tell you in the free case review. We do not sign clients up to generate fees on cases the law will not support.

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How long do I have to file a claim after a DUI crash near Mountain View?

It depends on which defendant you are pursuing. The claim against the at-fault driver must be filed within three years of the crash (C.R.S. 13-80-101(1)(n)). A dram shop claim against a bar or restaurant carries a much shorter one-year deadline that runs from when the alcohol was sold or served (C.R.S. 44-3-801(3)(a)(II)). A UM or UIM claim against your own insurer runs on a separate deadline under C.R.S. 13-80-107.5. Because each clock starts from a different event, the safest step is to have an attorney confirm every applicable deadline as early as possible after the crash.

Can I sue the bar that served the drunk driver who hit me near Sheridan Boulevard?

Often, yes. Colorado's Dram Shop Act (C.R.S. 44-3-801) allows injured people to sue a licensed vendor that willfully and knowingly served alcohol to a visibly intoxicated patron who then caused the crash. Service to anyone under 21 is also covered. A dram shop recovery is in addition to any recovery from the driver's own policy, so it can add a second source of compensation. The critical catch is the one-year filing deadline from when the alcohol was served. Bar surveillance footage and point-of-sale records disappear quickly. We evaluate dram shop liability at the very start of every Mountain View DUI case.

Should I wait for the criminal DUI case to finish before starting my civil claim?

No. The criminal case and your civil claim are separate proceedings on parallel tracks, and waiting costs you. The dram shop clock runs from the night of the crash, not from the date of any conviction. Surveillance footage from Sheridan Boulevard businesses is overwritten in days or weeks. We protect your civil rights and preserve evidence immediately while the Jefferson County criminal case proceeds on its own timeline. Any conviction or plea later strengthens your civil claim but is not required to start it.

What if the drunk driver had no insurance or not enough?

This is one of the most common situations in DUI injury cases. If the at-fault driver had no insurance, your uninsured motorist (UM) coverage steps into that driver's position. If the driver had some coverage but not enough, your underinsured motorist (UIM) coverage bridges the gap. UM and UIM claims run on their own deadline under C.R.S. 13-80-107.5, the statute the Colorado Supreme Court applied in Pham v. State Farm, 2013 CO 17. Do not settle with the at-fault insurer before understanding whether your own policy has coverage that could also respond. A premature settlement can limit your UIM rights.

Can I recover punitive damages against a drunk driver who hit me in Mountain View?

Sometimes. Drunk driving is the kind of willful and wanton conduct that can support punitive, or exemplary, damages on top of compensatory recovery. Punitive damages in Colorado generally cannot exceed the amount of actual damages awarded (C.R.S. 13-21-102). They require proof of willful and wanton conduct, which the facts of an impaired-driver crash can supply. We evaluate whether each case's specific evidence supports a punitive claim and pursue it where it is available.

Does CGH Injury Lawyers have an office in Mountain View?

No. CGH Injury Lawyers has one office, at 2701 Lawrence St., Suite 201, Denver, CO 80205. Mountain View is a small enclave of 541 residents covering 12 square blocks in Jefferson County. We serve Mountain View from our Denver office, handle Jefferson County DUI injury cases directly, and appear in Jefferson Combined Court in Golden when cases go to litigation. Call us at (303) 209-9395 for a free consultation.

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CGH Injury Lawyers · 2701 Lawrence St., Suite 201, Denver, CO 80205 · Serving Mountain View, Jefferson County

Mountain View DUI Accident Lawyers Who Pursue the Driver, the Bar, and Every Available Policy

Why a DUI driver is already presumed at fault: negligence per se in Mountain View crashes

The criminal DUI case versus your civil injury claim: what each one does for you

The criminal case (not yours to control)

Your civil claim (yours to drive)

Who can be held responsible besides the drunk driver: dram shop and UM coverage in Mountain View DUI cases

The bar or restaurant: Colorado Dram Shop Act

Your own coverage: UM and UIM

Mountain View courts. Mountain View trauma care. The roads where DUI crashes happen.

Sheridan Boulevard and West 44th Avenue: Mountain View's highest-exposure corridors

Jefferson Combined Court, Golden

St. Anthony Hospital and Denver Health

CGH Injury Lawyers does not have a Mountain View office

What to do after a DUI crash in or near Mountain View

Call 911 and make sure impairment is documented

Go to St. Anthony Hospital or Denver Health right away

Photograph everything and identify the source of alcohol

Track the one-year dram shop clock from day one

Do not give a recorded statement to any insurance company

What compensation can Mountain View DUI crash victims recover, and how Colorado's fault rules apply