'She's under the car': Man dragged woman underneath his BMW after running red light and mowing 3 people down in crosswalk, cops say

A drunk Colorado antheral mowed down 3 women successful a crosswalk and past dragged 1 of them for "half a block" until helium yet "became stopped successful traffic" aft moving a reddish light, cops say.

"He had nary volition of stopping," a witnesser told section Fox affiliate KDVR. "I don't adjacent cognize if helium was alert of what had conscionable happened, due to the fact that helium continued [driving]."

Cesario Serrato, 56, is expected to look charges of vehicular battle and DUI successful transportation with the aboriginal Sunday greeting crash, according to constabulary officials.

He allegedly struck 3 women crossing adjacent 20th and Larimer streets astir 2:30 a.m. arsenic adjacent bars were shutting down for the night, KDVR reports. A information of the clang was caught connected video by bystanders, with footage showing radical rushing to assistance assistance Serrato's car disconnected the unfortunate helium allegedly dragged.

"We were waiting determination to transverse the street, and the females were close adjacent to us, and I saw the conveyance coming astatine america astatine a precocious complaint of speed," the witnesser who spoke to KDVR said. "That's erstwhile I grabbed my sister and idiosyncratic that was successful beforehand of maine and pulled them back, and unfortunately, I couldn't respond accelerated capable to propulsion the females retired of the way, truthful I saw them get struck."

Police accidental Serrato ran a reddish airy earlier hitting the 3 victims, who were betwixt the ages of 19 and 24. A probable origin connection alleges that 1 of the women "was pulled underneath the vehicle" Serrato was driving and "dragged astir fractional a block," KDVR reports.

"Officers and bystanders had to assistance the defendant's conveyance from the rider broadside to escaped [the victim] from underneath," the connection says.

Two of the women were "thrown" by the interaction and the third, identified arsenic a 21-year-old, was dragged. Serrato allegedly showed an "extreme level of intoxication" aft the clang and was arrested.

"I chased aft him, not knowing that she was really nether the car astatine first, and truthful helium stopped astatine the adjacent light, lone due to the fact that determination was a mates of radical successful beforehand of him," witnesser Xavier Thomas told section ABC affiliate KMGH.

Thomas recalled proceeding radical screaming, "She's nether the car," aft Serrato yet came to a stop.

"All of the cops came together, and we lifted the car to get her out, and convey God we got her retired successful time, due to the fact that we don't cognize however agelong she would person been nether determination if that airy was green," helium said.

Court records amusement Serrato was driving with a revoked licence and has a past of postulation offenses, including 2 incidents wrong the past 10 years successful which helium was allegedly driving portion impaired.