{"id":497,"date":"2009-09-08T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=497"},"modified":"2009-09-08T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T19:00:24","slug":"a-film-about-the-dangers-of-texting-and-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=497","title":{"rendered":"A Film About the Dangers of Texting and Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gwent Police Department in southeast Wales has made a film on the dangers of Texting and Driving.  This very explicit and gory video, which runs four minutes, has been watched over four million times on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>In the film a young driver is texting as she is driving two friends along a two lane road. Distracted, the car drifts into oncoming traffic, hits another vehicle and has another vehicle crash into her vehicle killing her friends.  But if that&#8217;s not enough, it shows close ups of a girls head hitting against a car window,  and a baby in one of the other cars.<\/p>\n<p>Some American companies are currently making their own videos to promote a stronger awareness about the dangers of texting and driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gwent Police Department in southeast Wales has made a film on the dangers of Texting and Driving. This very explicit and gory video, which runs four minutes, has been watched over four million times on YouTube. In the film a young driver is texting as she is driving two friends along a two lane&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=497\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}