{"id":620,"date":"2011-08-01T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centives.wordpress.com\/?p=620"},"modified":"2011-08-01T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T13:00:41","slug":"the-relation-between-vehicle-weight-and-risk-of-crash-fatalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/the-relation-between-vehicle-weight-and-risk-of-crash-fatalities\/","title":{"rendered":"The Relation Between Vehicle Weight and Risk of Crash Fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"padding-right:8px;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hybridsuv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/suv-safety.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"324\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2011\/07\/29\/killer-cars-an-extra-1000-pounds-increases-crash-fatalities-by-47\/\">article<\/a>, the increased safety risk to drivers due to heavier vehicles is assessed. They found that the average weight of vehicles has increased by about 1,000 lbs. since 1980; this increase can largely be attributed to the popularity enjoyed by SUVs. It was found that this extra weight increased the risk of fatality from a car crash by 47%.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/blog\/\">Freakonomics Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, the increased safety risk to drivers due to heavier vehicles is assessed. They found that the average weight of vehicles has increased by about 1,000 lbs. since 1980; this increase can largely be attributed to the popularity enjoyed by SUVs. It was found that this extra weight increased the risk of fatality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}