{"id":169637104,"date":"2010-05-18T09:25:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T09:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=169637104"},"modified":"2010-05-18T09:25:04","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T09:25:04","slug":"bicyclist-stuck-flown-to-shock-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=169637104","title":{"rendered":"Bicyclist Stuck, Flown to Shock Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: In studies that focus on behavior that leads to bike crashes riding against traffic was the #1 cause of bike crashes (and that gos double for riding on the sidewalk against traffic) and the second was mid-block crossings. Drive your bike like a car, same road same rules. Playing jack-in-the-box with traffic by popping in and out is really not a good game plan. Our prayers go out Fredy Eatmon and hope for a speedy recovery.]<br \/>\n*****************************************************************<br \/>\nOn May 15, at approximately 11:46 a.m., Deputy Green responded to a motor to vehicle collision in the area of Miramar Way and Three Notch Road in California.<br \/>\nInvestigation reveals a bicyclist, Fredy Herman Eatmon, II, 45 of Washington D.C., was operating a bicycle between parked cars in the parking lot of Walmart when he pulled out from between the parked cars and attempted to cross the roadway.<br \/>\nThe bicyclist failed yield the right of way and pulled directly in front of a 1995 Chevrolet Silverado driven by Roland Wendell Carter, 47 of Baltimore.  The bicyclist collided with the truck.<br \/>\nEatmon was transported to Prince George\u2019s Hospital by Maryland State Police helicopter, Trooper 7.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebaynet.com\/news\/index.cfm\/fa\/viewstory\/story_ID\/17932\">https:\/\/www.thebaynet.com\/news\/index.cfm\/fa\/viewstory\/story_ID\/17932<\/a>oldId.20100518092504208<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: In studies that focus on behavior that leads to bike crashes riding against traffic was the #1 cause of bike crashes (and that gos double for riding on the sidewalk against traffic) and the second was mid-block crossings. Drive your bike like a car, same road same rules. Playing jack-in-the-box with traffic by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=169637104\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bicyclist Stuck, Flown to Shock Trauma&#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-169637104","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\/169637104","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=169637104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169637104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169637104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169637104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169637104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}