{"id":199877413,"date":"2011-05-03T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T09:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=199877413"},"modified":"2011-05-03T09:30:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T09:30:13","slug":"5-great-bicycle-safety-states-oregon-mass-new-hampshire-california-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=199877413","title":{"rendered":"5 Great Bicycle Safety States: Oregon, Mass, New Hampshire, California &amp; Maryland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before you get excited we have another case of got the facts wrong.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Helmet Law<\/strong>: Ages 15 and under.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cycling under the Influence Law<\/strong>: No.<\/li>\n<li><strong>LAB Rank<\/strong>: 11.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Bicycling<\/strong><\/em>: N\/A.<\/li>\n<li>Maryland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mva.maryland.gov\/Driver-Safety\/Bicycle\/default.htm\">doesn\u2019t mess around<\/a> when it comes to bicycle accidents, and places the default blame on the motorist. If a bicyclist is seriously hurt in a vehicle collision, the driver is fined $1,000 and given three points on his or her driving record.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nOur DUI is applicable to any vehicle including a bike. No we do not have the default blame on the motorist (possibly too much blame in the other direction) and typical fines for motorists are $500 max limited by court rule to $280.  The fine referenced can happen but only in rare and too often hard to prove situations.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gjel.com\/blog\/5-great-bicycle-safety-states-oregon-mass-new-hampshire-california-maryland.html\">https:\/\/www.gjel.com\/blog\/5-great-bicycle-safety-states-oregon-mass-new-hampshire-california-maryland.html<\/a>oldId.20110503093013383<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you get excited we have another case of got the facts wrong. Helmet Law: Ages 15 and under. Cycling under the Influence Law: No. LAB Rank: 11. Bicycling: N\/A. Maryland doesn\u2019t mess around when it comes to bicycle accidents, and places the default blame on the motorist. If a bicyclist is seriously hurt in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=199877413\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;5 Great Bicycle Safety States: Oregon, Mass, New Hampshire, California &amp; Maryland&#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-199877413","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\/199877413","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=199877413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199877413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199877413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199877413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199877413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}