{"id":135363077,"date":"2009-04-16T16:51:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=135363077"},"modified":"2009-04-16T16:51:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:51:17","slug":"maryland-fatality-and-incapacitating-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=135363077","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Fatality and Incapacitating crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In general people seemed unconcerned about Maryland&#8217;s traffic deaths at 615 which is almost 2 a day. Well what about 5,393 people incapacitated for 2007, that&#8217;s better then one every two hours on average. Compare that to 7 bicyclists killed and 73 incapacitated, now how safe do you feel driving in Maryland vs cycling?<br \/>\nOh and this stands out like a sore thumb: Baltimore City Car crash rates per:<br \/>\nVMT                534.9 &#8211; State Avg: 177.8<br \/>\nPop.                304.2 &#8211; State Avg: 179.7<br \/>\nLicen. Dr.        616.2 &#8211; State Avg: 254.5<br \/>\nRegist. Veh.   678.5 &#8211; State Avg: 212.6<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nData from: <a href=\"https:\/\/medschool.umaryland.edu\/nscfortrauma\/docs\/Traffic%20Safety%20Factbook%202007.pdf\">https:\/\/medschool.umaryland.edu\/nscfortrauma\/docs\/Traffic%20Safety%20Factbook%202007.pdf<\/a>oldId.200904161651172<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In general people seemed unconcerned about Maryland&#8217;s traffic deaths at 615 which is almost 2 a day. Well what about 5,393 people incapacitated for 2007, that&#8217;s better then one every two hours on average. Compare that to 7 bicyclists killed and 73 incapacitated, now how safe do you feel driving in Maryland vs cycling? Oh &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=135363077\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maryland Fatality and Incapacitating crashes&#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-135363077","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\/135363077","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=135363077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135363077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135363077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135363077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135363077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}