{"id":234647870,"date":"2012-06-08T19:57:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T19:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=234647870"},"modified":"2012-06-08T19:57:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T19:57:50","slug":"maryland-driver-guilty-in-crash-that-killed-bicyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=234647870","title":{"rendered":"Maryland driver guilty in crash that killed bicyclist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Another victory for cycling advocates &quot; I thought I hit a deer&quot; is not a valid excuse for a hit-and-run, take note Maryland drivers.]<br \/>\n**************************************************************************************<br \/>\nBy Matt Zapotosky, Washington Post<br \/>\nA driver who fatally struck a Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate who was out riding her bike was convicted Thursday of failing to remain at the scene of an accident involving death and other counts.<br \/>\nChristy Littleford, 43, of Upper Marlboro faces up to 10 years in prison for the September 2010 crash that killed Natasha Pettigrew, 30, a third-year law student at the University of Miami who had taken a break from school to run for office.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/crime\/maryland-driver-guilty-in-crash-that-killed-bicyclist\/2012\/05\/24\/gJQAKGfMoU_story.html\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/crime\/maryland-driver-guilty-in-crash-that-killed-bicyclist\/2012\/05\/24\/gJQAKGfMoU_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: Another victory for cycling advocates &quot; I thought I hit a deer&quot; is not a valid excuse for a hit-and-run, take note Maryland drivers.] ************************************************************************************** By Matt Zapotosky, Washington Post A driver who fatally struck a Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate who was out riding her bike was convicted Thursday of failing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=234647870\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Maryland driver guilty in crash that killed bicyclist&#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-234647870","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\/234647870","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=234647870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234647870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234647870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234647870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234647870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}