{"id":182195007,"date":"2010-10-10T17:43:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T17:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=182195007"},"modified":"2010-10-10T17:43:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T17:43:27","slug":"child-in-stroller-struck-by-suv-in-aspen-hill-injuries-life-threatening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=182195007","title":{"rendered":"Child in stroller struck by SUV in Aspen Hill, injuries &#8216;life-threatening&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.tbd.com\/crime\/strollerhit-georgiaave-1008_296.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><br \/>\nThe scene at Georgia Ave. and Aspen Hill Rd. (Julie Parker)<\/p>\n<p>This is just tragic, as much as I am for a proactive approach to pedestrian safety there should also be a systematic review of where accidents happen and up grade these intersections and if the pedestrian was &#8220;j-walking&#8221; and no crosswalk within 1\/4 of a mile, put one in. Install countdown signals, refresh paint on the crosswalk (totally invisible in the photo) get rid of only on demand pedestrian signals for crossing busy roads.<\/p>\n<p>More details and comments in the links after the fold.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nCoverage of the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tbd.com\/blogs\/tbd-on-foot\/2010\/10\/mother-and-child-in-stroller-struck-by-car-in-silver-spring-2854.html\">here<\/a><br \/>\nAnd lots of comments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcurbanmom.com\/jforum\/posts\/list\/129989.page\">here.<\/a>oldId.20101010174327772<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scene at Georgia Ave. and Aspen Hill Rd. (Julie Parker) This is just tragic, as much as I am for a proactive approach to pedestrian safety there should also be a systematic review of where accidents happen and up grade these intersections and if the pedestrian was &#8220;j-walking&#8221; and no crosswalk within 1\/4 of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=182195007\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Child in stroller struck by SUV in Aspen Hill, injuries &#8216;life-threatening&#8217;&#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-182195007","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\/182195007","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=182195007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182195007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182195007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182195007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182195007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}