{"id":2429839,"date":"2019-01-17T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/beware-of-reckless-driver\/"},"modified":"2019-01-17T18:48:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T01:48:00","slug":"beware-of-reckless-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/beware-of-reckless-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of reckless driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I would like to praise and thank Officer Curt Donaldson of the Basalt Police Department for his time and kindness in assisting me after my hit-and-run accident around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday in front of the Roaring Fork Club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">His professionalism and thoughtfulness was most welcoming as I was a bit shaken up, as one can imagine, but very lucky to be here. The driver of the silver SUV with an out-of-state license plate was speeding by me, swerved into the left turn lane and changed his mind and swerved into my car with such speed; it sent my car across all the three lanes of oncoming traffic lanes. Luckily I managed to steer into the driveway of the Roaring Fork Club without getting hit again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">If anyone witnessed this, please contact the Basalt Police Department as this driver needs to be taught a lesson before he kills someone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Margi Crawford<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Basalt<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/beware-of-reckless-driver\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to praise and thank Officer Curt Donaldson of the Basalt Police Department for his time and kindness in assisting me after my hit-and-run accident around 1:30 p.m. on Saturday in front of the Roaring Fork Club. His professionalism and thoughtfulness was most welcoming as I was a bit shaken up, as one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2429839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 10:16:22","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2429839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2429839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2429839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2429839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2429839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}