{"id":384744823,"date":"2017-03-12T01:33:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T01:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=384744823"},"modified":"2017-03-12T01:33:43","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T01:33:43","slug":"road-fatalities-are-soaring-heres-how-to-stop-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=384744823","title":{"rendered":"Road fatalities are soaring. Here\u2019s how to stop that."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Washington Post<\/p>\n<p>U.S. ROADWAYS in 2016 yielded another bumper crop of carnage as vehicle fatalities soared 6 percent, following a 7\u2009percent jump in 2015 \u2014 the biggest two-year spike since the 1960s. The cost of deaths, injuries and property damage resulting from crashes also leaped by 12 percent in just a year, to some $432\u2002billion, an amount on par with the entire annual economic output of a mid-size European country, such as Norway.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/road-fatalities-are-soaring-heres-how-to-stop-that\/2017\/02\/26\/1b41ca14-f497-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Washington Post U.S. ROADWAYS in 2016 yielded another bumper crop of carnage as vehicle fatalities soared 6 percent, following a 7\u2009percent jump in 2015 \u2014 the biggest two-year spike since the 1960s. The cost of deaths, injuries and property damage resulting from crashes also leaped by 12 percent in just a year, to some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=384744823\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Road fatalities are soaring. Here\u2019s how to stop that.&#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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384744823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-baltimore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384744823","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=384744823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384744823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384744823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384744823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384744823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}