{"id":406055032,"date":"2017-11-13T17:03:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T17:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=406055032"},"modified":"2017-11-13T17:03:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T17:03:52","slug":"cars-overwhelmingly-cause-bike-collisions-and-the-law-should-reflect-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=406055032","title":{"rendered":"Cars overwhelmingly cause bike collisions, and the law should reflect that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Soufiane Boufous, The Conversation<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nTo keep our cyclists safe, it may be time to adopt the approach of many European nations by introducing legislation that, in civil cases, presumes that car drivers caused a collision unless there is evidence to the contrary.<br \/>\nShifting the burden of proof to drivers \u2013 who must prove they didn\u2019t cause a crash \u2013 has been highly successful in other nations, along with other measures, in keeping cyclists safer and reducing accidents.<br \/>\nCars generally cause collisions<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThese results are similar to a Monash University study in which researchers examined camera footage of similar incidents. They found that drivers were responsible for the actions preceding the incident in 87% of cases.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/theconversation.com\/cars-overwhelmingly-cause-bike-collisions-and-the-law-should-reflect-that-78922<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Soufiane Boufous, The Conversation &#8230; To keep our cyclists safe, it may be time to adopt the approach of many European nations by introducing legislation that, in civil cases, presumes that car drivers caused a collision unless there is evidence to the contrary. Shifting the burden of proof to drivers \u2013 who must prove &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=406055032\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cars overwhelmingly cause bike collisions, and the law should reflect 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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406055032","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\/406055032","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=406055032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406055032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406055032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406055032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406055032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}