Limo driver comes to woman's aid, gets severely beaten

Bob Groney thought he had seen it all driving limousines for decades. But he wasn't prepared for what he heard Early Monday morning as he drove a group of 20somethings home from a concert at Red Rocks.

Groney dropped off the majority of the group and only had two passengers left, a guy and a girl.


And that's when he says he heard the woman yelling in fear, trying to stop the man's advances.

"No leave me a lone, no I don't want to do that," Groney recalls. "No get away from me, stay away quit touching me."

He could tell it wasn't horseplay.

"I think she might have been raped, I think that's where it was going to," he says.

So after asking the man repeatedly to stop, Groney tried to kick him out of the limo.

And that's when doing the right thing, went wrong.

"He was on me like he was trying to kill me, that was it," Groney says. "I have a dislocated shoulder, I have a broken nose, many stitches inside my mouth, my teeth are all broken."

Douglas County Sheriff's Office arrested 21 year old Allen Kallweit and charged him with felony assault and harassment.

The limo driver who lost the fight, won over the female passenger's parents, who asked to remain anonymous.

"I want to thank Bob for intervening and helping my daughter in a life threatening situation," her mother told us. "If it wasn't for him, I felt like my daughter would have really been injured."

"If I knew what was going to happen to me, I would do exactly the same thing," Groney said. "I have daughters, no means no."

Groney's main problem now is that he can't work due to his injuries. He has workman's comp through his company Sunset Limos. And he thanks the company for their support.

We also called Allen Kallweit. A woman answer the phone at his listed address said they had no comment.