{"id":251562539,"date":"2012-12-21T14:28:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T14:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=251562539"},"modified":"2012-12-21T14:28:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T14:28:59","slug":"traffic-deaths-at-lowest-point-in-62-years-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=251562539","title":{"rendered":"Traffic deaths at lowest point in 62 years [but &#8230;]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Ashley Halsey III, Washington Post<br \/>\nDeaths behind the wheel of an automobile fell last year to the lowest level since the Truman administration, but there was an increase in fatalities among bicyclists, pedestrians, motorcycle riders and big-rig truck drivers, according to federal figures released Monday.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe number of bicyclists killed increased by 8.7 percent and pedestrian deaths were up 3 percent.<br \/>\n\u201cOur culture is beginning to move away from driving and toward healthier and greener modes of transportations,\u201d said Jonathan Adkins, deputy executive director of the Governors Highway Safety Association. \u201cWe need to be able to accommodate all these forms of transportation safely.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/articles.washingtonpost.com\/2012-12-10\/local\/35745525_1_motorcycle-deaths-highway-deaths-seat-belt\">https:\/\/articles.washingtonpost.com\/2012-12-10\/local\/35745525_1_motorcycle-deaths-highway-deaths-seat-belt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ashley Halsey III, Washington Post Deaths behind the wheel of an automobile fell last year to the lowest level since the Truman administration, but there was an increase in fatalities among bicyclists, pedestrians, motorcycle riders and big-rig truck drivers, according to federal figures released Monday. &#8230; The number of bicyclists killed increased by 8.7 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=251562539\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Traffic deaths at lowest point in 62 years [but &#8230;]&#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-251562539","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\/251562539","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=251562539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251562539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251562539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251562539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251562539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}