{"id":20837,"date":"2020-01-05T11:22:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T18:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=62410"},"modified":"2020-01-05T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T18:22:52","slug":"pedestrian-injured-in-car-crash-on-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/pedestrian-injured-in-car-crash-on-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian injured in car crash on New Year\u2019s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"721\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/04\/shutterstock_1199720581-1024x721.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/04\/shutterstock_1199720581-1024x721.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/04\/shutterstock_1199720581-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/04\/shutterstock_1199720581-768x541.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Police cited a Fraser woman for careless driving causing injury after she hit a wheelchair user crossing the sidewalk in Winter Park.<\/p>\n<p>At around 6 p.m. on New Year\u2019s Eve, a pedestrian in a wheelchair and another person were crossing Main Street at Telemark Drive when a brown Acura stopped in the right-hand lane proceeded into the intersection, colliding with the pedestrian in the wheelchair, Fraser Winter Park Police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to witnesses, the pedestrians were unable to make it to the other side of the street before the signal on Main Street turned green.<\/p>\n<p>The collision caused the pedestrian, a 34-year-old man from Thousand Oaks, California, to be ejected from his wheelchair and suffer a hip injury. The wheelchair was also damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian was transported to Middle Park Health \u2013 Granby and treated for minor injuries, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Acura, a 34-year-old Fraser woman, received a summons in the Grand County Court for careless driving. Impairment was not a suspected factor, but police believe driver distraction was.<\/p>\n<p>Fraser Winter Park Police, Grand County EMS and East Grand Fire responded to the call.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/news\/pedestrian-injured-in-car-crash-on-new-years-eve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police cited a Fraser woman for careless driving causing injury after she hit a wheelchair user crossing the sidewalk in Winter Park. At around 6 p.m. on New Year\u2019s Eve, a pedestrian in a wheelchair and another person were crossing Main Street at Telemark Drive when a brown Acura stopped in the right-hand lane proceeded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 05:58:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}