{"id":17836,"date":"2018-10-10T01:23:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T01:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17836"},"modified":"2018-10-10T01:23:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T01:23:14","slug":"victims-final-texts-hint-at-limo-problems-before-deadly-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17836","title":{"rendered":"Victim&#8217;s final texts hint at limo problems before deadly crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>The limo driver in the deadly crash in upstate New York was a &#8220;great driver&#8221; and longtime employee of Prestige Limousine Chauffeur Service, the company&#8217;s attorney said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Authorities say the driver did not have the proper license and that the vehicle had failed a recent inspection. But lawyer Lee Kindlon said the company&#8217;s owner thought the driver had a proper license. The company checked with the Department of Motor Vehicles &#8220;a number of different times&#8221; and were told that he did, Kindlon said. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Kindlon also disagreed with statements that the stretched Ford Excursion should not have been on the road. &#8220;I am disputing that any recent failures of minor safety defects contributed to this crash,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)The limo driver in the deadly crash in upstate New York was a &#8220;great driver&#8221; and longtime employee of Prestige Limousine Chauffeur Service, the company&#8217;s attorney said Tuesday.Authorities say the driver did not have the proper license and that the vehicle had failed a recent inspection. But lawyer Lee Kindlon said the company&#8217;s owner thought&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}