{"id":121974988,"date":"2008-11-12T17:56:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T17:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=121974988"},"modified":"2008-11-12T17:56:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T17:56:28","slug":"safety-group-calls-for-cell-phone-driving-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=121974988","title":{"rendered":"Safety group calls for cell phone driving code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[As a cyclists a good percentage of my emergency avoidance situations are caused by motorists on cell phones.]<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe Maryland Highway Safety Foundation said it hopes to recruit 100 businesses with a cumulative 100,000 employees to adopt policies covering such matters as cell phone use, texting while behind the wheel, driving while intoxicated and other traffic offenses. Foundation co-chairman David Nevins announced the effort at a morning meeting that drew some of the state&#8217;s top political leaders, including Gov. Martin O&#8217;Malley, House Speaker Michael E. Busch and Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger.<br \/>\nAfter the meeting, O&#8217;Malley said his administration would become one of the employers to adopt such rules for users of state-owned vehicles. &quot;Stay tuned. It&#8217;s in the offing,&quot; he said<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nNeither cell phone use nor texting while driving is explicitly banned under Maryland law, even though either could possibly be covered under the state&#8217;s negligent driving statute. The General Assembly has so far resisted passing legislation addressing cell phones or texting except in the case of novice drivers.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n[Maryland ranks the 8th highest in pedestrian traffic fatalities it&#8217;s time the General Assembly started to do something about it.]<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/bal-te.md.safety31oct31,0,982003.story\">https:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/local\/bal-te.md.safety31oct31,0,982003.story<\/a>oldId.20081112175628605<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[As a cyclists a good percentage of my emergency avoidance situations are caused by motorists on cell phones.] &#8230; The Maryland Highway Safety Foundation said it hopes to recruit 100 businesses with a cumulative 100,000 employees to adopt policies covering such matters as cell phone use, texting while behind the wheel, driving while intoxicated and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=121974988\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Safety group calls for cell phone driving code&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121974988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121974988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121974988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121974988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121974988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121974988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121974988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}