{"id":28143,"date":"2015-01-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/en\/categories\/law_order\/html\/2015\/01\/20150121_151124.shtml"},"modified":"2015-01-21T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T04:00:00","slug":"pedestrian-road-safety-campaign-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2015\/01\/21\/pedestrian-road-safety-campaign-starts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian road safety campaign starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Law_and_Order\/Accident_02.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>To reduce traffic accidents involving pedestrians, particularly senior citizens, the Police will run a city-wide pedestrian road safety campaign from today until January 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stringent enforcement action will be taken during the week-long campaign. Officers will issue summonses against pedestrians for jaywalking or committing other serious traffic offences. They will give verbal warnings for minor offences.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers will also hand out publicity leaflets to improve pedestrians' road safety awareness while urging people to comply with road traffic regulations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There were 3,268 pedestrian casualties in the first 11 months of last year, including 58 deaths &#8211; 42 of which were pedestrians aged 60 or above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.news.gov.hk\/images\/home\/Categories_generic_icons\/Law_and_Order\/Accident_02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>To reduce traffic accidents involving pedestrians, particularly senior citizens, the Police will run a city-wide pedestrian road safety campaign from today until January 27.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Stringent enforcement action will be taken during the week-long campaign. Officers will issue summonses against pedestrians for jaywalking or committing other serious traffic offences. They will give verbal warnings for minor offences.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officers will also hand out publicity leaflets to improve pedestrians' road safety awareness while urging people to comply with road traffic regulations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There were 3,268 pedestrian casualties in the first 11 months of last year, including 58 deaths &#8211; 42 of which were pedestrians aged 60 or above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28144,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28143\/revisions\/28144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}