{"id":147209390,"date":"2009-08-31T19:29:50","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T19:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=147209390"},"modified":"2009-08-31T19:29:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T19:29:50","slug":"baltimore-police-responcable-for-49-lives-lost-and-7686-people-injured-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=147209390","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore police responcable for 49 lives lost and 7,686 people injured in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who missed this line in the previous article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20090831171437740\">Biking to school<\/a>:<br \/>\n<b>&#8220;We must also continue to ask the Baltimore Police Department to live up to their part of the bargain as outlined in the Baltimore Bicycle Master Plan.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I am really not sure why the police continue to be unresponsive or why they think traffic safety is not an issue, in Baltimore 24% of our traffic fatalities are pedestrians or cyclists; Maryland 20.6%; national average 14%. DC&#8217;s pedestrian fatality rate is15.2\/M ours is 17.3\/M, National average 14.4\/M. (2008 data) Approximately one third of Baltimore&#8217;s traffic victims are kids (13% of the population.) And we all know how well motorist yield to pedestrians around here, obey speed limits and generally drive safe. <br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/brood.gif\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like we don&#8217;t have some agencies on board but without the ability to enforce\/give warnings for moving violations, I&#8217;m not sure how effective of a Street Smart campaign we are going to have.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onelesscar.org\/public\/documents\/stsmart_data.pdf\">Baltimore Regions 2008 Crash Facts<\/a>oldId.20090831192950802<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who missed this line in the previous article Biking to school: &#8220;We must also continue to ask the Baltimore Police Department to live up to their part of the bargain as outlined in the Baltimore Bicycle Master Plan.&#8221; I am really not sure why the police continue to be unresponsive or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=147209390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Baltimore police responcable for 49 lives lost and 7,686 people injured in 2008&#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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147209390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-baltimore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147209390","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=147209390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147209390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147209390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147209390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147209390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}