A 23-year-old man was killed Aug. 11 after being struck by a vehicle while working along U.S. Highway 6 near Glenwood Springs, and his mother is calling for tougher distracted driving laws as the driver faces a misdemeanor charge.

According to an affidavit filed by the Glenwood Springs Police Department, Madison Burke, 39, was driving a gray Toyota RAV4 when she struck a road sign trailer at mile marker 115 on Interstate 70’s frontage road just after 8 a.m. The crash killed Derrik “DC” Romero-Evans, who was working with a crew from WS Barricade at the time.

Burke is charged with careless driving resulting in death, which is currently classified as a Class 1 misdemeanor in Colorado. In the affidavit, Officer Jacob Braaksma wrote that Burke told him she “had only looked down at [her] maps

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