{"id":206626960,"date":"2011-07-20T12:22:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T12:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=206626960"},"modified":"2011-07-20T12:22:40","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T12:22:40","slug":"was-raquel-nelson-jaywalking-when-hit-and-run-driver-killed-her-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=206626960","title":{"rendered":"Was Raquel Nelson Jaywalking When Hit and Run Driver Killed Her Child?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both Georgia and Maryland law recognize unmarked crosswalks at every intersection as an extension of the sidewalk but &quot;The nearest painted crosswalk was half a mile away. Prosecutors viewed this as grounds for a homicide case&quot; against the pedestrian and not against the drunk driver.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/erikkain\/2011\/07\/19\/raquel-nelson-was-not-jaywalking-when-hit-and-run-driver-killed-her-child\/\">https:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/erikkain\/2011\/07\/19\/raquel-nelson-was-not-jaywalking-when-hit-and-run-driver-killed-her-child\/<\/a><br \/>\n(Update to Georgia Mom Convicted of Vehicular Homicide For Crossing Street With Kids <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20110718114448464\">https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20110718114448464<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Georgia and Maryland law recognize unmarked crosswalks at every intersection as an extension of the sidewalk but &quot;The nearest painted crosswalk was half a mile away. Prosecutors viewed this as grounds for a homicide case&quot; against the pedestrian and not against the drunk driver. https:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/erikkain\/2011\/07\/19\/raquel-nelson-was-not-jaywalking-when-hit-and-run-driver-killed-her-child\/ (Update to Georgia Mom Convicted of Vehicular Homicide For &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=206626960\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Was Raquel Nelson Jaywalking When Hit and Run Driver Killed Her Child?&#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-206626960","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\/206626960","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=206626960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206626960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206626960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206626960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206626960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}