{"id":188297391,"date":"2010-12-20T08:49:51","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T08:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=188297391"},"modified":"2010-12-20T08:49:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T08:49:51","slug":"why-arent-people-screaming-from-the-rooftops-that-this-is-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=188297391","title":{"rendered":"Why aren&#8217;t people screaming from the rooftops that this is dangerous?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nJudy and Joe were on their way to one of his after school activities on the day of the crash.  They were just a mile from their home when a young woman driving a Hummer and talking on her cell phone ran a red light and slammed into their vehicle.<br \/>\nJudy was fortunate to escape with only minor injuries.  But Joe wasn&#8217;t as lucky.  His side of the car took the brunt of the impact, and he died the next day at the hospital.<br \/>\nThe loss stunned the Teater family&#8211;especially when they discovered that the driver who struck them was on the phone at the time of the crash.<br \/>\n&quot;She passed six cars and a school bus that were stopped for the red light, and she did not see them,&quot; Judy said.  &quot;She was talking and looking straight ahead and didn&#8217;t see the cars passing in front of her.&quot;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fastlane.dot.gov\/2010\/12\/faces-of-distracted-driving-joe-teater-12-why-arent-people-screaming-from-the-rooftops-that-this-is-.html\">https:\/\/fastlane.dot.gov\/2010\/12\/faces-of-distracted-driving-joe-teater-12-why-arent-people-screaming-from-the-rooftops-that-this-is-.html<\/a>oldId.20101220084951317<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Judy and Joe were on their way to one of his after school activities on the day of the crash. They were just a mile from their home when a young woman driving a Hummer and talking on her cell phone ran a red light and slammed into their vehicle. Judy was fortunate to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=188297391\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why aren&#8217;t people screaming from the rooftops that this is dangerous?&#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-188297391","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\/188297391","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=188297391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188297391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188297391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188297391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188297391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}