{"id":310523564,"date":"2014-11-04T00:32:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T00:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=310523564"},"modified":"2014-11-04T00:32:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T00:32:44","slug":"new-law-fines-careless-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=310523564","title":{"rendered":"New law fines careless drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Patricia Gay, Wilton Bulletin<\/p>\n<p>A new Connecticut law holds accountable careless drivers who injure or kill pedestrians or cyclists.<\/p>\n<p>The Vulnerable User law, Public Act 14-31 went into effect on Oct. 1 and requires a fine to be imposed on reckless motor vehicle drivers who cause the death or serious injury of a pedestrian, cyclist, wheelchair user, or other \u201cvulnerable users\u201d who were using reasonable care. The fine is capped at $1,000.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiltonbulletin.com\/29121\/new-law-fines-careless-drivers\/\">https:\/\/www.wiltonbulletin.com\/29121\/new-law-fines-careless-drivers\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patricia Gay, Wilton Bulletin A new Connecticut law holds accountable careless drivers who injure or kill pedestrians or cyclists. The Vulnerable User law, Public Act 14-31 went into effect on Oct. 1 and requires a fine to be imposed on reckless motor vehicle drivers who cause the death or serious injury of a pedestrian, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=310523564\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New law fines careless drivers&#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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310523564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-you-will-not-see-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310523564","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=310523564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310523564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310523564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310523564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310523564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}