{"id":194106102,"date":"2011-02-25T14:21:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T14:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=194106102"},"modified":"2011-02-25T14:21:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T14:21:42","slug":"when-being-in-full-compliance-of-the-law-is-not-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=194106102","title":{"rendered":"When being in full compliance of the law is not good enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Bike Portland and I will highlight this bit:<br \/>\n&quot;Given the circumstances, it seems like issuing a citation would probably not stand up in court. Any person could go in and say, &#8216;It&#8217;s dark, rainy, there&#8217;s this little red light in the road&#8217;. I think any judge would toss that citation out&#8217;.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nIt probably wasn&#8217;t powerful enough or large enough to overcome the circumstances surrounding this situation<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nI could totally see how you&#8217;d miss a small red light.&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 Det. Sgt. Jim Shumway, Beaverton Police Department<br \/>\n[B&#8217; Spokes: What bothers me is two fold. Why do we have legal requirements that don&#8217;t stand up in court? And just because there are some low end lights and reflectors, why isn&#8217;t there a standard that can be applied that can say that the cyclists meet or exceeded visibility standards in this situation?]<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bikeportland.org\/2011\/02\/15\/beaverton-fatality-follow-up-a-conversation-with-police-spokesman-47980\">https:\/\/bikeportland.org\/2011\/02\/15\/beaverton-fatality-follow-up-a-conversation-with-police-spokesman-47980<\/a>oldId.20110225142142176<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Bike Portland and I will highlight this bit: &quot;Given the circumstances, it seems like issuing a citation would probably not stand up in court. Any person could go in and say, &#8216;It&#8217;s dark, rainy, there&#8217;s this little red light in the road&#8217;. I think any judge would toss that citation out&#8217;. &#8230; It probably &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=194106102\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When being in full compliance of the law is not good enough&#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-194106102","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\/194106102","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=194106102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194106102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194106102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194106102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194106102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}