Travis Legal Offices represents Littleton residents injured in crashes on Santa Fe Drive, Mineral Avenue, Broadway, C-470, and throughout the city. Our Castle Rock office is 20 minutes south, and we have spent over 26 years handling personal injury cases in the courthouses that serve Littleton. That last point matters more for Littleton than for any other community on the I-25 corridor, because Littleton spans three counties, each with its own jury pools, judge and courthouses. Knowing which jurisdiction to file in for a Littleton truck, motorcycle or car crash is important and our staff has experience in finding the right one for your case.
Two people were killed at the intersection of Santa Fe Drive and Mineral Avenue because a stolen car ran a red light at 100 miles per hour. Jayne Davicsin was 25 years old. Ryan Carter was 27. They were not involved in the pursuit. They were not doing anything wrong. They were simply at an intersection at the wrong time. An intersection where 90,000 vehicles cross every day. An intersection the City of Littleton has now committed $21.4 million to rebuild because it cannot safely handle the traffic it carries.
That crash, in February 2019, was an extreme case. But the daily reality at Santa Fe and Mineral is only a matter of degree. Sixty thousand vehicles cross Santa Fe Drive at this point every day. Thirty thousand cross Mineral. The left-turn movements, the speed differentials between through traffic and turning traffic, the sheer volume of vehicles competing for the same space at the same time, all of it produces crashes with regularity. The city’s $21.4 million reconstruction project broke ground in 2024. It will not be complete until 2027. In the meantime, 90,000 vehicles still pass through every day, and the same design flaws that justified the project continue to produce the same types of collisions.
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This is the most dangerous intersection in Littleton by any measure. Santa Fe Drive carries 60,000 vehicles daily through this point. Mineral Avenue adds 30,000. The combined volume of 90,000 vehicles per day flows through an intersection whose geometry and signal timing have produced crashes severe enough to justify a $21.4 million reconstruction project.
In February 2019, a stolen-vehicle pursuit reached speeds of 100 miles per hour before the fleeing driver ran the red light at Santa Fe and Mineral and T-boned a car carrying Jayne Davicsin, 25, and Ryan Carter, 27. Both were killed on impact. They were not part of the pursuit. They were not suspects. They were two people who happened to be at this intersection at the moment a stolen vehicle came through it at a speed that made stopping physically impossible.
In November 2025, a large crash closed Santa Fe at Aspen Grove Way, just south of the Mineral intersection. The crash pattern at this location is dominated by left-turn conflicts: vehicles attempting to turn left across multiple lanes of high-speed through traffic misjudge the gap, or through-traffic drivers run the light because the signal cycle does not provide enough protected left-turn time for the volume. The city’s reconstruction will add a “quadrant roadway” to reroute left-turning traffic entirely, eliminating the conflict that causes most of the crashes. That design solution is an admission that the current intersection is fundamentally unsafe.
If you were injured at Santa Fe and Mineral before the reconstruction is complete, the city’s $21.4 million commitment to fix it is relevant evidence. It establishes that the entity responsible for the intersection knew it was dangerous. Under Colorado governmental immunity law (C.R.S. § 24-10-106), a public entity can be liable for a dangerous condition of a public road if it had actual or constructive notice of the condition and failed to remedy it. A $21.4 million project authorization is notice in writing.
Santa Fe Drive is the longest highway within Littleton’s city limits. It runs north-south through the city, connecting Littleton to Englewood (and Swedish Medical Center, the nearest Level I Trauma Center) to the north and communities along the I-25 corridor to the south. The road serves as a fast-moving commercial route with a lot of large trucks moving through it; many signalized intersections and commercial driveways and residential side streets connecting to the road from both sides. Due to the high frequency of crashes and closures on Santa Fe, Littleton residents expect to be delayed while driving on this road due to these events.
Additionally, because there is a transition zone surrounding Mineral Avenue; the area north of Mineral Avenue has more urban characteristics than the area south of Mineral Avenue; narrower building setbacks, more pedestrians, and tighter signal spacing. Therefore, when drivers travel south-bound they transition from the urban area to the faster suburban arterial and do not adjust their level of awareness. Conversely, when drivers travel north-bound they carry suburban highway speeds into the more densely populated area, which creates a collision of energies (energy mismatch) and the energy mismatch produces serious injury.
C-470 Through the Littleton Area
C-470 runs along the southern and western edges of Littleton, carrying heavy commuter traffic between I-25 to the east and the foothills communities to the west. The highway produces serious accidents near on-ramps and exit points where merging traffic meets through traffic at high speed. The corridor’s proximity to the Mineral RTD light rail station generates traffic surges as commuters converge on the transit-highway interchange zone during rush hour. Multi-vehicle chain-reaction crashes in stop-and-go congestion are the dominant serious crash type on C-470 in this area.
AdventHealth Littleton sits at 7700 South Broadway, placing the city’s primary hospital directly on one of its busiest corridors. Broadway carries a mix of commuter through traffic, local traffic accessing Downtown Littleton’s shops and restaurants, and pedestrians crossing between parking areas and the Main Street district. The road handles more volume than its signal timing and lane configuration were designed to manage, producing rear-end crashes and left-turn conflicts at commercial driveways. The stretch near the hospital is particularly congested during shift changes: the road that carries injured people to care is itself producing the injuries.
Santa Fe Drive carries 60,000 vehicles per day through Littleton. The Santa Fe and Mineral intersection handles a combined 90,000 daily vehicles. The city has committed $21.4 million to rebuild it because the current design is fundamentally unsafe. Two bystanders were killed at the intersection in a 100 mph pursuit crash. Completion is not expected until 2027. Sources: City of Littleton; CDOT.
Littleton is the only community on the I-25 corridor that spans three separate counties. The majority of the city falls in Arapahoe County. A western portion extends into Jefferson County. A small southern section reaches into Douglas County. Each county belongs to a different judicial district with its own courthouse, its own judges, and its own jury pool. Where your crash happened within Littleton determines which court hears your case, and which community of strangers decides what your injuries are worth.
If your crash occurred in the Arapahoe County portion of Littleton (including Santa Fe and Mineral, the downtown area, and most of Broadway), your case falls under the 18th Judicial District. You file at the Arapahoe County Justice Center, 7325 South Potomac Street, Centennial, CO 80112. Phone: (303) 645-6600. Some Arapahoe County matters are also handled at the Arapahoe County Courthouse, 1790 West Littleton Boulevard, Littleton, CO 80120, (303) 798-4591. Littleton is the county seat of Arapahoe County, and this courthouse is located within the city itself.
If your crash occurred in the Jefferson County portion (the western section near Wadsworth and the foothills), your case falls under the 1st Judicial District. You file at the Jefferson County Combined Court, 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, CO 80419. Phone: (720) 772-2500.
If your crash occurred in the small Douglas County portion (the southern edge), your case falls under the 23rd Judicial District. You file at the Douglas County Courthouse, 4000 Justice Way, Castle Rock, CO 80109. Phone: (720) 437-6200.
Filing in the wrong jurisdiction creates delays, costs money, and tells the defense that your attorney does not understand the jurisdiction. Travis Legal Offices has litigated in all three judicial districts for over 26 years. We determine the correct filing court based on the exact location of your crash, and we handle the jurisdictional analysis as a matter of course. You do not need to figure out which county your intersection is in. That is what you hire us for.
The February 2019 crash at Santa Fe and Mineral that killed Jayne Davicsin and Ryan Carter involved a stolen-vehicle pursuit that reached 100 miles per hour. Cases like this raise a question most people never consider until it touches their life: when a police pursuit ends in a crash that kills bystanders, who bears liability?
The driver of the stolen vehicle bears primary criminal and civil responsibility. But Colorado law also allows claims against the law enforcement agency conducting the pursuit under certain circumstances. The Colorado Governmental Immunity Act (C.R.S. § 24-10-106) provides limited waivers of sovereign immunity, including for the operation of a motor vehicle by a public employee. Whether a pursuit was conducted in compliance with the agency’s pursuit policy, whether the danger to the public outweighed the need to apprehend the suspect, and whether the pursuing officers followed their training, all become relevant questions in a civil claim.
These cases are extraordinarily complex. They involve governmental immunity analysis, law enforcement policy review, expert testimony on pursuit decision-making, and often multiple defendants with competing interests. Travis Legal Offices has over 26 years of experience navigating the intersection of governmental immunity and personal injury law. If you or a family member was injured or killed as a bystander in a police pursuit, call (303) 766-8766. These cases have strict notice requirements under the Governmental Immunity Act, and delay can destroy your claim before it begins.
Littleton has spent over a century building something most communities along the I-25 corridor never had: a downtown people actually walk through. The independently owned shops on Main Street have survived every wave of suburban retail development. The Littleton Museum, a Smithsonian Affiliate, operates two living-history farms with animals and costumed interpreters on 40 acres. The 10-day Western Welcome Week street fair, the Candlelight Walk, the Mardi Gras celebration, all of it draws people on foot to a district designed around the human pace.
The problem is that Main Street sits between Broadway and Santa Fe, two of the most dangerous roads in the city. Pedestrians walking between parking areas and the downtown district must cross or navigate corridors designed for vehicle throughput, not foot traffic. The High Line Canal Trail, which runs 35 miles through the south metro area, passes through Littleton and brings cyclists and pedestrians into proximity with vehicle traffic at multiple crossings. Colorado law requires drivers to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks (C.R.S. § 42-4-802) and exercise due care to avoid pedestrians on any roadway (C.R.S. § 42-4-805). When a driver strikes a pedestrian in a district specifically designed to encourage walking, the argument that the pedestrian “shouldn’t have been there” is nonsense.
Littleton Emergency Resources
Call 911 or Littleton Police at (303) 794-1551 for non-emergency crashes. If your crash is on Santa Fe Drive, C-470, or a state highway, dial *CSP (*277) from your cell phone. Get evaluated at AdventHealth Littleton’s emergency department at 7700 South Broadway. If your injuries are severe, you may be transferred to Swedish Medical Center (Level I Trauma Center) in Englewood, approximately 5 miles north.
Determine which county your crash occurred in. Littleton’s three-county geography means your crash at Santa Fe and Mineral (Arapahoe County) and your neighbor’s crash near Wadsworth and Bowles (Jefferson County) will be filed in different courthouses with different judges and different juries. The responding law enforcement agency (Littleton PD, Arapahoe County Sheriff, Jefferson County Sheriff, or Colorado State Patrol) can tell you which jurisdiction you are in. Note this detail and pass it to your attorney.
Do not give a recorded statement to any insurance company before speaking with an attorney. Contact Travis Legal Offices at (303) 766-8766. We will meet you at your home in Littleton, at AdventHealth, or at our Castle Rock office.
Travis Legal Offices represents injured people throughout the I-25 corridor and surrounding communities in Douglas County, Arapahoe County, Elbert County, and El Paso County. Click any location below to learn about the specific roads, intersections, and crash patterns in your community.
Our office is located at 333 Perry Street, Suite 203, in Castle Rock, at the intersection of Perry Street and 4th Street on the second floor. We also meet clients at their homes, hospitals, or any convenient location throughout the corridor. If you cannot come to us, we will come to you.
Littleton is a place that has preserved something rare along the I-25 corridor: a genuine sense of identity. The Smithsonian-affiliated museum with two living-history farms. Main Street with its Town Hall Arts Center and independently owned shops. The High Line Canal Trail winding through 1,500 acres of parks across 13.87 square miles. The 45,652 people who live here chose Littleton because it feels like a community, not a highway exit.
The fact that there are three jurisdictions in Littleton creates a unique jurisdictional issue that some firms that handle personal injury cases have never considered or even noticed until they have already filed their lawsuit in the wrong courtroom. There are three counties; therefore, there are three judicial districts, three courts, three judges, and three jury pools. Any firm that views this as simply an administrative process is simply a firm that has never tried a case in Littleton.
For over 26 years Travis Legal Offices has successfully litigated cases in the 18th Judicial District (Arapahoe County); the 1st Judicial District (Jefferson County); and the 23rd Judicial District (Douglas County). We know which district your accident occurred in. We know the juries in each of those districts. We know the roadways throughout Douglas County and Jefferson County. When the opposing insurance carrier sees the name Travis Legal Offices and the breadth of our jurisdictional experience, we can assure you that they know that trying to challenge venue or using gamesmanship through procedure will not be effective against us.
If you have been injured in Littleton, on Santa Fe, on Mineral, on Broadway, on C-470, or anywhere in this city, call (303) 766-8766. The consultation is free. The jurisdictional analysis starts immediately. The fight for your case starts the same day.
Todd A. Travis founded Travis Legal after 26+ years representing injured Coloradans. His career includes complex personal injury work on both plaintiff and defense sides. That experience taught him exactly how insurance companies assess cases and which attorneys they undervalue. He’s tried cases to jury verdict and built this firm on a simple principle: catastrophic injury cases require genuine attention, not assembly-line processing. When Todd’s name appears on a demand letter, insurance adjusters respond differently. He answers client calls directly.
Jordan M. Travis joined the firm after law school, bringing a perspective shaped by growing up around trial preparation and legal strategy discussions. His generational approach complements the firm’s established reputation and adds contemporary research methods to how they build cases. Together, Todd and Jordan offer something larger firms can’t replicate: deep trial experience combined with current techniques and the capacity to give each client genuine attention. When you contact Travis Legal, you’re speaking with both attorneys. The same people who will manage your case from investigation through trial.
When you call, you reach Todd or Jordan. Not a receptionist. Not an intake specialist. Your actual attorney.
We work on contingency, meaning you pay nothing unless we win. The consultation is free. Given Colorado’s three-year statute of limitations, acting quickly matters. Evidence deteriorates. Video footage gets deleted. Witnesses relocate. Company records vanish.
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Travis Legal Offices, LLC
333 Perry Street, Suite 203
Castle Rock, Colorado 80104
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