The Colorado State Patrol confirmed that Hollywood actor Robert Carradine paid the fine for a careless driving ticket it issued to him last month.
CSP spokesman Sgt. Rob Madden said Carradine, 61, mailed a $169.50 payment to the Department of Revenue after he was ticketed for colliding with a semi-trailer on Colorado Highway 145 east of Dolores. He was issued a careless driving ticket for a lane violation, according to the CSP. Madden said Carradine also had four points tacked onto his driving record.
Both lanes of traffic near Mile Marker 14 were closed for more than two hours after Carradine’s 2003 Mercury Marauder crossed the center line and collided with a southbound 2014 semi at 2:17 p.m. March 5.
Carradine and his wife, Edith Carradine, were wearing seatbelts, and neither speed nor alcohol was a factor in the crash, according to the State Patrol.
Both initially were transported to Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez with non-life-threatening injuries before being transferred to Mercy Regional Medical Center in Durango.
On March 13, Carradine tweeted, “Overwhelmed and thankful for all the great love support! Healing up. Need my family, privacy, and rest #nerdstong #seatbeltsavelives RT.”
Carradine is most famous for his role as fraternity president Lewis Skolnick in the 1984 film “Revenge of the Nerds.”
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