The driver accused of intentionally running down two cyclists in a hit-and-run in Jefferson County last month says it wasn’t a deliberate act and believes she had a seizure while behind the wheel.
on U.S. 40 near Evergreen. She’s being held on $1 million bond and is charged with 11 criminal counts, including two counts apiece of first-degree assault, vehicular assault and leaving the scene of an accident.after being struck, with Ludwig spending more than two weeks in a coma before regaining consciousness last week. Both were members of the Team Evergreen cycling club.
One witness “described the vehicle’s movement as similar to road rage” and said he could not be “more sure” that what happened was intentional, according to the affidavit. Another witness told sheriff’s officials the driver seemed to accelerate toward the cyclists. “I would like the biking community — and, more so, the two victims — to know that this was an accident and that I’m so sorry,” she said. “…It’s crazy to me that people would think I have a grudge against bicyclists or anything like that.”Having struggled with drugs since she was 10 years old, Mill said she was about 48 hours sober from opioids on the day of the crash.
Startled by the people knocking, Mill said she sped off, reminded of the aggression she’s suffered throughout her life for being a transgender woman. “I came out as trans when I was a teenager. I’ve been randomly attacked for this throughout my past,” she said.
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