After Denver saw its worst year for traffic deaths on record, advocates and relatives of people killed on the city’s streets gathered in front of the City and County Building to mourn.
As part of a day of advocacy and protest day, dozens of Denverites staged a die-in. A speaker read the names of each person who died in car crashes in 2025. With each name called, another person laid on the ground, until there were 93 bodies on the pavement.
Some of the participants had lost loved ones in traffic crashes here and elsewhere. Madeline Leibin, a civil rights attorney, came to remember her friend Barbara Friedes, a young doctor who was killed by a driver as she rode her bike in Philadelphia in 2024…