{"id":918,"date":"2013-08-23T18:39:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T18:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/safety-alert-montgomery-county-maryland-pedestrian-accidents-increasing\/"},"modified":"2022-05-04T13:54:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:54:15","slug":"safety-alert-montgomery-county-maryland-pedestrian-accidents-increasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/safety-alert-montgomery-county-maryland-pedestrian-accidents-increasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety alert: Montgomery County, Maryland pedestrian accidents increasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pedestrian-accident-lawyer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-3263 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/pedestrian-accident-lawyer-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"pedestrian-accident-lawyer\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/a>With the back-to-school season in full swing, Montgomery County has seen a rise in pedestrian accidents.&nbsp; Local police say that in 2013, the Maryland county has already seen more pedestrian accidents than the entire prior year combined.&nbsp; Some are worried the injury total will continue to rise higher as children go back to school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraffic crashes, whether students are pedestrians or passengers or even drivers in the car are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjla.com\/articles\/2013\/08\/accidents-rise-as-school-year-begins-92811.html\">number one cause of death for your kids<\/a>,\u201d says Debra Hersman, Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, recently told ABC Channel 7.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Montgomery County has been the source of several recent pedestrian accidents. This morning, a 70-year-old woman died from her injuries suffered after she was struck on Thursday by an oncoming car as she walked across Georgia Avenue in Wheaton.<\/p>\n<p>Just yesterday, a 14-year-old boy was struck and critically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/local\/Teen-Struck-by-Car-in-Rockville-220706091.html\">injured near the Twinbrook Parkway and Viers Mill Road<\/a> intersection in Rockville.&nbsp; The teen was attempting to cross the road when he was hit by an oncoming car.&nbsp; Last week, a car struck a pedestrian near Redland Road and Muncaster Mill Road in Derwood.&nbsp; The pedestrian suffered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcwashington.com\/news\/local\/Pedestrian-Seriously-Injured-in-Montgomery-Co-Crash-219907101.html\">serious injuries and was hospitalized<\/a>, according to news reports.<\/p>\n<p>Recognizing the increasing number of pedestrian injuries, Montgomery County is spending $50,000 on a parking lot safety program.&nbsp; In 2012, there were 423 pedestrian-related vehicle accidents, more than 30% of which occurred in parking lots.&nbsp; In a noteworthy incident, a North Potomac resident drove through the parking lot of the Gaithersburg Sam\u2019s Club store in July, hitting two pedestrians and one store patron.<\/p>\n<p>The Cochran Firm DC urges drivers to take simple precautionary measures that could save a pedestrian\u2019s life or prevent an injury.&nbsp; Thomas Gianni, chief of the Maryland Highway Safety Office, recently told WTOP that Maryland drivers should drive at a safe speed, yield the right of way, and obey street lights and stop signs.&nbsp; We agree with Gianni\u2019s advice.&nbsp; By following this straightforward advice, lives may be saved and avoidable injuries prevented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the back-to-school season in full swing, Montgomery County has seen a rise in pedestrian accidents.&nbsp; Local police say that in 2013, the Maryland county has already seen more pedestrian accidents than the entire prior year combined.&nbsp; Some are worried the injury total will continue to rise higher as children go back to school. \u201cTraffic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3470,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/washington-dc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}