{"id":20720,"date":"2008-10-03T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/blame-the-trucks\/"},"modified":"2008-10-03T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T01:43:56","slug":"blame-the-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/10\/03\/blame-the-trucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Blame the trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Freight vehicles make up only 15% of the vehicles on the road, but are responsible for 25% of all accidents in the DR, according to Juan Manuel Cabral Baldera, director of the Department of Highway Organization, a dependency of the Transit Authority (AMET). Cabral made his comments during a training and inspection seminar with truck drivers. AMET officials are now placing reflective tapes on trucks to try to reduce accidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freight vehicles make up only 15% of the vehicles on the road, but are responsible for 25% of all accidents in the DR, according to Juan Manuel Cabral Baldera, director of the Department of Highway Organization, a dependency of the Transit Authority (AMET). Cabral made his comments during a training and inspection seminar with truck &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/10\/03\/blame-the-trucks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[227,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}