{"id":27604863,"date":"2005-11-16T12:01:03","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T12:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=27604863"},"modified":"2005-11-16T12:01:03","modified_gmt":"2005-11-16T12:01:03","slug":"speed-and-pedestrian-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=27604863","title":{"rendered":"Speed and pedestrian safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"134\" height=\"120\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/11\/20051116120103843_1.gif\" alt=\"\">Faster speeds not only reduce the amount of time pedestrians and vehicles have to react to each other, but also increase the likelihood of a pedestrian being killed in a crash. A pedestrian hit by a vehicle traveling at 40 mph has an 85 percent chance of being killed; at 30 mph, it goes down to 45 percent, while at 20 mph, it is only 5 percent.<br \/>\n&#8211; U.K. Department of Transportation, Killing Speed and Saving Lives, London, 1987.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/safety.fhwa.dot.gov\/ped_bike\/ped\/pedforum\/pedforum_fall05.htm\">https:\/\/safety.fhwa.dot.gov\/ped_bike\/ped\/pedforum\/pedforum_fall05.htm<\/a><br \/>\noldId.20051116120103843<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faster speeds not only reduce the amount of time pedestrians and vehicles have to react to each other, but also increase the likelihood of a pedestrian being killed in a crash. A pedestrian hit by a vehicle traveling at 40 mph has an 85 percent chance of being killed; at 30 mph, it goes down &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=27604863\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speed and pedestrian safety&#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-27604863","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\/27604863","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=27604863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27604863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27604863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27604863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27604863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}