THORNTON, Colo . -- The Adams County District Attorney has formally charged Monica Chavez, 34, for her role in the deaths of a family of five in a traffic accident in February.
Chavez was taken into custody by Thornton Police this evening.
Police say Chavez was driving a SUV at a high rate of speed on the wrong side of the road near 84th Ave. and Grant in Thornton. A police investigation determined that Chavez initiated a multiple car accident when her car became airborne and landed on top of a pickup carrying the Stollsteimer family.
The entire family, including a husband, wife, and their three children, was killed on impact.
Chavez was taken into custody by Thornton Police this evening.
She is charged with five felony counts of criminally negligent homicide.
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