{"id":281288045,"date":"2013-11-30T15:34:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T15:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=281288045"},"modified":"2013-11-30T15:34:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T15:34:05","slug":"vehicle-accidents-in-maryland-involving-bikes-increase-sharply-in-last-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=281288045","title":{"rendered":"Vehicle Accidents in Maryland Involving Bikes Increase Sharply in Last Five Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> by Capital News Service<br \/>\nThere were 841 accidents between cars and bikes in Maryland in 2012, according to the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration, a 5 percent increase over the 799 bike-car accidents in 2008.<br \/>\nHarford County resident Pam Moore never worried about sharing the road with cars until she was struck by one while riding her bike in August. She lost consciousness and suffered a collapsed lung, broken ribs, abrasions and a concussion from the accident, she said.<br \/>\n\u201cThere was nothing I could do different,\u201d Moore said. \u201cI was following the laws. I was where I was supposed to be.\u201d<br \/>\nIn 2012, five people in Maryland died from bike-car crashes and 689 people were injured.<br \/>\nMany motorists do not view bicycles as vehicles that have an equal right to use the road, said Neil Buchness, president of Chesapeake Spokes, a bicycle group in Harford County.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re actually people. We aren\u2019t just something to contend with in the road or go around,\u201d he said. \u201cGive us a little more respect out on the road.\u201d<br \/>\nBuchness said the state needs to ensure motorists know the law.<br \/>\n\u201cI think the biggest thing that will help us is education. Getting it out there. The more people that realize that we are cyclists and we do have a right to the road,\u201d the better, Buchness said.<br \/>\nAccording to the law, drivers must leave three feet between their car and bicyclists when passing them on the road.<br \/>\n\u201cI think a lot of motorists feel that bicyclists are trespassing on the public roadways and that leads to resentment,\u201d said Michael Jackson, director of bicycle and pedestrian access for the Maryland Department of Transportation.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/chestertownspy.com\/2013\/11\/29\/vehicle-accidents-involving-bikes-increase-sharply-on-last-five-years-7\/\">https:\/\/chestertownspy.com\/2013\/11\/29\/vehicle-accidents-involving-bikes-increase-sharply-on-last-five-years-7\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Capital News Service There were 841 accidents between cars and bikes in Maryland in 2012, according to the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration, a 5 percent increase over the 799 bike-car accidents in 2008. Harford County resident Pam Moore never worried about sharing the road with cars until she was struck by one while riding &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=281288045\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vehicle Accidents in Maryland Involving Bikes Increase Sharply in Last Five Years&#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-281288045","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\/281288045","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=281288045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281288045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281288045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281288045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281288045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}