{"id":183821523,"date":"2010-10-29T13:32:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T13:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=183821523"},"modified":"2010-10-29T13:32:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T13:32:03","slug":"once-upon-a-time-in-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=183821523","title":{"rendered":"Once upon a time in Vermont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1997 Vermont&#8217;s pedestrian fatality rate was 2.04 per 100,000 population and Maryland&#8217;s was 2.10 not a whole lot of difference. In 2008 (latest year) Vermont&#8217;s pedestrian fatality rate was 0.16! While Maryland made a modest improvement of 2.06.<br \/>\nIf you look at the trends on FARS you see that other states are making progress while Maryland is basically staying the same. So Maryland&#8217;s ranking among the other states keeps going up to our current rank of the 6th highest pedestrian fatality rate.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll see if I can dig up more info on this and thanks to one of our readers for bringing this to my attention.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nData from: <a href=\"https:\/\/www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov\/States\/StatesPedestrians.aspx\">https:\/\/www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov\/States\/StatesPedestrians.aspx<\/a>oldId.20101029133203985<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1997 Vermont&#8217;s pedestrian fatality rate was 2.04 per 100,000 population and Maryland&#8217;s was 2.10 not a whole lot of difference. In 2008 (latest year) Vermont&#8217;s pedestrian fatality rate was 0.16! While Maryland made a modest improvement of 2.06. If you look at the trends on FARS you see that other states are making progress &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=183821523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Once upon a time in Vermont&#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-183821523","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\/183821523","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=183821523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183821523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183821523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183821523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183821523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}