{"id":38854,"date":"2017-04-10T11:01:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T17:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=38854"},"modified":"2017-04-10T11:04:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T17:04:41","slug":"april-is-national-distracted-driving-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/april-is-national-distracted-driving-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Dont&#8217; read this while driving!<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Oxford, Miss. &#8211; April is <strong>National Distracted Driving Awareness Month<\/strong>. Next week, April 6\u201310, the <strong>National Highway Traffic Safety Administration<\/strong> is promoting a campaign for the awareness of distracted driving. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/distracteddriveraccidents.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">distracteddriveraccidents.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, every year, about 421,000 people are injured in crashes that have involved a distracted driver.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Over 2.5 million people in the <strong>United States<\/strong> are involved in road accidents each year. Of these, 1.6 million have a cell phone involved in them. That is 64% of all road accidents in the United States. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt;\">Distracted driving is not only texting and driving but it ranges from eating to putting makeup on to blaring loud music with your friends. It takes an average of <em>three-seconds<\/em> after a driver\u2019s mind is taken off the road for any road accident to occur. Three-seconds is the equivalent of turning your ignition when starting your car.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dont&#8217; read this while driving! Oxford, Miss. &#8211; April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Next week, April<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":38855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1288,10207,10206,5,642,7133,4,2092],"class_list":["post-38854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-april","tag-awareness-month","tag-distracted-driving","tag-mississippi","tag-ms","tag-opd","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-police-department"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2017-4-10-Distracted-driver.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}