{"id":248210623,"date":"2012-11-12T19:23:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T19:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=248210623"},"modified":"2012-11-12T19:23:43","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T19:23:43","slug":"driver-in-diane-whitman-fatality-gets-400-in-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=248210623","title":{"rendered":"Driver in Diane Whitman fatality gets $400 in fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via The WashCycle<br \/>\nThanks to Joe for pointing this out. Heather Simmons, the driver who hit Diane Whitman from behind on Olney-Latonsville Road\/Route 108, killing her, was found guilty of Negligent driving and &quot;Not Keeping 3 Feet&quot; and charged $400 in fines. That may be the first prosecution of the 3 feet rule in the region.<br \/>\nThere doesn&#8217;t seem to be any sign of points or loss of license. There may be a civil case that follows, but still it looks like 2 tickets for $400 is the extent of the punishment.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2012\/11\/driver-in-diane-whitman-fatality-gets-400-in-fines.html\">https:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2012\/11\/driver-in-diane-whitman-fatality-gets-400-in-fines.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via The WashCycle Thanks to Joe for pointing this out. Heather Simmons, the driver who hit Diane Whitman from behind on Olney-Latonsville Road\/Route 108, killing her, was found guilty of Negligent driving and &quot;Not Keeping 3 Feet&quot; and charged $400 in fines. That may be the first prosecution of the 3 feet rule in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=248210623\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Driver in Diane Whitman fatality gets $400 in fines&#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-248210623","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\/248210623","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=248210623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248210623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248210623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248210623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248210623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}