{"id":2453702,"date":"2020-01-24T22:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/broken-leg-reported-after-aspen-pedestrian-mall-car-strike\/"},"modified":"2020-01-24T22:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T05:40:00","slug":"broken-leg-reported-after-aspen-pedestrian-mall-car-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/broken-leg-reported-after-aspen-pedestrian-mall-car-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken leg reported after Aspen pedestrian mall car strike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The horse-drawn carriage driver hit by a wealthy part-time Aspen resident driving an SUV downtown on Christmas Eve suffered a broken leg, according to a police report.<\/p>\n

The driver, Susan Braddock, 75, of Manhattan, showed no signs of impairment after the crash on the Galena Street pedestrian mall, however, and told police the Land Rover she was driving \u201cjust took off,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n

An Aspen police officer on his way to a public outreach event APD was hosting at the intersection of Cooper Avenue and Galena Street happened to witness the incident about 1:20 p.m., the report states. He noted seeing traffic backed up as he approached from the northeast.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a row of cars with (Braddock\u2019s) silver Land Rover in the crosswalk,\u201d Officer Adriano Minniti wrote in the report. \u201cAs I approached the crosswalk, the silver Land Rover \u2026 started to pull around the vehicle in front of it, to the right, in an effort to bypass the backed up traffic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe vehicle then sped up quickly, went around the vehicle and came to a stop, perpendicular, to the normal flow of traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minniti said he ran to the vehicle.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I approached the vehicle, I noticed there was a pedestrian down on the ground and screaming in pain,\u201d the report states. \u201cIt was later determined that the individual hit by the vehicle \u2026 sustained a broken femur.\u201d<\/p>\n

Braddock\u2019s vehicle lightly hit the horse-drawn carriage but \u201csquarely struck\u201d the carriage driver, \u201cwho was thrown from where she was standing,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n

Aspen police at the time said in a statement<\/a> they believed Braddock \u201caccidentally accelerated past stopped traffic, up onto the mall walking area and striking the victim.<\/p>\n

Braddock was charged with careless driving causing bodily injury. She is scheduled to appear in Pitkin County Court on Feb. 25.<\/p>\n

Braddock, a philanthropist, and her husband, former Priceline CEO Richard Braddock, own the Peak House, the highest single-family residence on Red Mountain. The couple purchased the 17,839 square-foot home in 2001 for $22 million.<\/p>\n

jauslander@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The horse-drawn carriage driver hit by a wealthy part-time Aspen resident driving an SUV downtown on Christmas Eve suffered a broken leg, according to a police report. The driver, Susan Braddock, 75, of Manhattan, showed no signs of impairment after the crash on the Galena Street pedestrian mall, however, and told police the Land Rover […]<\/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":["post-2453702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 19:08:29","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'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\/2453702","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=2453702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}