{"id":123626780,"date":"2008-12-01T20:46:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T20:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=123626780"},"modified":"2008-12-01T20:46:20","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T20:46:20","slug":"motor-vehicle-occupant-and-pedestrian-fatalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=123626780","title":{"rendered":"Motor Vehicle Occupant and Pedestrian Fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motor vehicle traffic deaths remain the leading cause of death among Americans aged between 1 and 34 years. In 2001, traffic crashes accounted for about 38000 deaths, of which an estimated 4700 were pedestrians. 1 Although only about 5% of all trips are made on foot,2 pedestrian fatalities make up about 12% of all traffic deaths, making walking one of the most dangerous modes of travel.3<br \/>\n[Baltimore traffic fatality rate is 74% higher then New York City.]<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.minority.unc.edu\/sph\/minconf\/2004\/materials\/ewing.et.al.pdf\">https:\/\/www.minority.unc.edu\/sph\/minconf\/2004\/materials\/ewing.et.al.pdf<\/a>oldId.20081201204620657<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motor vehicle traffic deaths remain the leading cause of death among Americans aged between 1 and 34 years. In 2001, traffic crashes accounted for about 38000 deaths, of which an estimated 4700 were pedestrians. 1 Although only about 5% of all trips are made on foot,2 pedestrian fatalities make up about 12% of all traffic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=123626780\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Motor Vehicle Occupant and Pedestrian Fatalities&#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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123626780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123626780","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=123626780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123626780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123626780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123626780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123626780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}