Lauren Boebert accused of covering up crash caused by her son Tyler, 17, that left his friend with multiple concussions
RIFLE, COLORADO: A car crash victim and friend of Rep Lauren Boebert's teenage son Tyler Boebert alleges that an accident in which Tyler was driving left him with multiple concussions and a severely lacerated hand, and accuses the political family of downplaying and covering up the accident. Noble D'Amato, 19, was involved in a car accident with Tyler, now 18, after he took a curve too fast last year and flipped his father's SUV into a creek bed.
"I still have problems with my hand," D'Amato told Westword. "My thumb almost got cut off. It prevented me from getting a welding job, because I can't hold a TIG torch anymore. I'm a personal-care provider now." He alleged Tyler who's a soon-to-be father, was "stone cold sober" at the time of the accident "and he still f**king flipped us," D'Amato said. "That shows you how much he just doesn't care. He was driving so f**king fast," on the night of September 17.
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What really happened?
After the crash, D'Amato was rushed to a hospital in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, where police observed D'Amato was acting "impaired on a substance as eyes were dilated, speech was rapid [and] incoherent to slow [and] mumbling." The 19-year-old later admitted he had taken "a bar" - meaning Xanax, claiming to have gotten it "from a Mexican at a skate park in Rifle." Police found unprescribed Xanax pills and a "silver marijuana grinder w/small amount of marijuana," in D'Amato's backpack and charged him with unlawful possession of a schedule IV controlled substance and drug paraphernalia.
"I remember waking up with blood pouring out of my hand. I had put my hands up in the air to protect myself and got messed up really bad by the window or something. I was just glad to be alive," D'Amato said. However, the friend insisted Tyler was sober at the time of the crash. The congresswoman's son told officers that the pair were on their way to a "gathering" and he was attempting to look at the "pin drop" on his phone when the accident occurred. "I was giving my friend a ride up to a campsite or something and was taking the corner too fast and before I noticed it was too late," the young Boebert told cops.
"I locked up the breaks [sic] and it slid across the gravel into the creek then tipped over. Side airbags deployed, and my friend cut his hand open and hit his head," Tyler said. Investigators reported the 17-year-old "failed to negotiate a left-hand curve in the roadway and traveled off of the right side of the roadway" before "entering into a creek bed and overturning '1/2 of a rotation.'" Tyler got a careless driving ticket, which was later dropped down to a "defective vehicle for headlights" ticket after the teenager accepted a plea deal. He had to attend court-ordered driving school and a court hearing on Monday, April 10, which is how the news of the crash came out, reported the source.
Noble D'Amato slams Lauren Boebert's statement as 'bulls**t'
In a statement released by Boebert's Congressional office on April 4, the family tried to downplay D'Amato's injury as "superficial at best," which infuriated the teenager. "The injury reported was superficial at best and was addressed by medical professionals out of caution," Boebert's office said. D'Amato claimed the statement was "bulls**t," and the congresswoman "never liked me but that doesn't give them the right to try and hide the fact that I was injured. They just don't give a f**k. It's the entire family." Also, Boebert's office's statement said "the incident involved two minors," which is inaccurate, as D'Amato was 19 when the crash occurred. Tyler was 17, thus his name was redacted and the case was only made public when he turned 18 in March.
Since the crash, D'Amato said he is working on his sobriety and helping others clean. "Tyler is a good kid. I certainly wish that he and the family could take responsibility for what he did, because I know he didn't mean to do it. It was an accident. But the fact that they're downplaying it like this is something else. Superficial injuries? I got multiple concussions. My thumb was almost cut off. I couldn't hold a torch. It prevented me from getting a welding job," he said. "So, yeah, harm was definitely done." D'Amato said if it was up to Tyler "and he didn't have his mom affecting his mind so aggressively - he'd take responsibility and not act like it wasn't a big deal." "But he's the son of Lauren Boebert," the 19-year-old victim added. "If I did what he did, I'd still be in jail," he added.