With more than four months left in 2018, motorists have already ended the lives 15 people walking and biking. It's already been a deadlier year for pedestrians and bicyclists than 2017, when drivers killed 14.
Motorists killed one person walking and inflicted life-changing injuries to one pedestrian and one person biking last week, according to the Denver Police Department.
Gregorio Benavides may have been drunk when he struck and killed Abel Shippley, 79, with a vehicle in front of the Sunnyside resident's home on July 20.
Kendal Gilkey, 33, struck and killed Frétard on Speer Boulevard, then drove away. Frétard was the third person killed while biking on Denver streets this year.