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“My family is gone. I have nobody”: Denver man mourns wife, daughter killed in crash with firetruck

DPD is still investigating the fatal crash at Broadway, Speer

Benjamin Hendry holds photos of his wife and stepdaughter who died in a crash with a Denver firetruck on Jan. 23.
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Benjamin Hendry holds photos of his wife and stepdaughter who died in a crash with a Denver firetruck on Jan. 23.
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“My family is gone man,” Benjamin Hendry said. “I have nobody.”

The 59-year old Lincoln Park resident is still coming to terms with a fatal crash on Jan. 23 that killed his wife, Deborah Williams, and his stepdaughter, Monica Charles.

The pair was driving south on Broadway last Saturday, when a Denver Fire Department rescue truck, heading northwest on Speer, T-boning their car.

Charles, 38, of Commerce City, died in the crash. Williams, 53, of Denver died four days later.

“I had friends out here that said a little car…was balled up like a piece of paper. They had to get the jaws of life to pull them out,” Hendry said.

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