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Three-year-old Austin Strasser died after being struck by a car in Denver’s Bonnie Brae neighborhood. (Photo provided by Connie Hamman)
I recently sat in the Denver Public Library’s Eugene Field branch at University Boulevard and Ohio Avenue in the Bonnie Brae neighborhood. The window looked out on the flowers laid in memory of the 3-year-old who recently died after being struck by a car. In five minutes, I saw three cars run a red light.
People, you are in a huge, heavy, hurtling hunk of metal. Getting where you are going two minutes later won’t matter. Please slow down — and quit using your phones while driving. Please.
Mathew Smith,Denver
This letter was published in the Feb. 28 edition.
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