{"id":162518737,"date":"2010-02-25T00:05:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T00:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=162518737"},"modified":"2010-02-25T00:05:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T00:05:37","slug":"lower-speed-limits-increase-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=162518737","title":{"rendered":"Lower Speed Limits Increase Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When travel speed increases by 1%, the injury crash rate increases by about 2%, the serious injury crash rate increases by about 3%, and the fatal crash rate increases by about 4%. The same relation holds in reverse: a 1% decrease in travel speed reduces injury crashes by about 2%, serious injury crashes by about 3%, and fatal crashes by about 4%.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2010\/02\/24\/fact-checking-the-toyota-hearing-lower-speed-limits-increase-safety\/\">https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2010\/02\/24\/fact-checking-the-toyota-hearing-lower-speed-limits-increase-safety\/<\/a>oldId.2010022500053781<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When travel speed increases by 1%, the injury crash rate increases by about 2%, the serious injury crash rate increases by about 3%, and the fatal crash rate increases by about 4%. The same relation holds in reverse: a 1% decrease in travel speed reduces injury crashes by about 2%, serious injury crashes by about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=162518737\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lower Speed Limits Increase Safety&#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-162518737","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\/162518737","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=162518737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162518737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162518737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162518737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162518737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}