{"id":770,"date":"2013-01-27T01:02:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T00:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=770"},"modified":"2013-02-27T14:44:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T13:44:28","slug":"grim-dashboard-video-of-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2013\/01\/27\/grim-dashboard-video-of-crashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Grim dashboard video of crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This link to a fascinating and grim video was sent to me by Peter Jacobsen showing what motorists see of crashes using dashboard-mounted cameras. Many of the scenes are motorists crossing the centerline into the path of oncoming vehicles. Peter writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I&#8217;m a fan of Vision Zero, and that approach calls for installing raised center medians to prevent a head-on collision. Pretty cheap intervention, but that approach prevents passing slowing vehicles, and hence adds to travel time. Somehow engineers view that as more important&#8230;\u00a0Here in California, Caltrans, the DoT, fought for 20 years against installing a raised median on one &#8220;blood alley&#8221; (Sears Point Road, part of Highway 37 from Vallejo to Novato).&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oFkw5JFOmHk\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oFkw5JFOmHk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This link to a fascinating and grim video was sent to me by Peter Jacobsen showing what motorists see of crashes using dashboard-mounted cameras. Many of the scenes are motorists crossing the centerline into the path of oncoming vehicles. Peter writes: \u201cI&#8217;m a fan of Vision Zero, and that approach calls for installing raised center [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2013\/01\/27\/grim-dashboard-video-of-crashes\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motor-vehicle-crashes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}