{"id":59475,"date":"2020-05-18T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=59475"},"modified":"2020-05-17T14:10:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T18:10:38","slug":"new-philadelphia-pedestrian-fatality-study-highlights-accident-statistics-and-community-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/new-philadelphia-pedestrian-fatality-study-highlights-accident-statistics-and-community-response\/","title":{"rendered":"New Philadelphia Pedestrian Fatality Study Highlights Accident Statistics and Community Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 18, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; The Pearce Law Firm, Personal Injury and Accident Lawyers P.C. has a new pedestrian fatality study which highlights accident statistics and community response.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/20-0518-pearce-law-firm-survey-696x522.jpg\" alt=\"Survey: Problems for Philadelphia Pedestrians\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/20-0518-pearce-law-firm-survey-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/20-0518-pearce-law-firm-survey-696x522-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><br \/>\nAccidents involving pedestrians resulting in serious injuries or fatalities are on the rise in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>In response to this disturbing trend, The Pearce Law Firm, Personal Injury and Accident Lawyers P.C. commissioned a safety study using public data from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and surveyed input from the Philadelphia community.<\/p>\n<p>According to local pedestrians, construction areas and blocked sidewalks are the biggest problem facing Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The pedestrian safety study aggregates and reports on several data sets including:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Philadelphia Roads with Most Fatal Pedestrian Accidents<\/li>\n<li>Philadelphia Pedestrian Fatalities and Serious Injuries by Year<\/li>\n<li>Survey of Community Threat Perception<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition to the data compilation, charts and analysis, the study provides an overview of the current laws governing the blocking of sidewalks and Mayor Kenney\u2019s initiatives to improve pedestrian safety.<\/p>\n<p>The complete study details and poll results are available at: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepearcelawfirm.com\/making-philadelphias-pedestrians-safer\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/thepearcelawfirm.com\/making-philadelphias-pedestrians-safer\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pearce Law Firm, Personal Injury and Accident Lawyers P.C. is a comprehensive car accident and personal injury law firm headquartered in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 18, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; The Pearce Law Firm, Personal Injury and Accident Lawyers P.C. has a new pedestrian fatality study which highlights accident statistics and community response. Accidents involving pedestrians resulting in serious injuries or fatalities are on the rise in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8204,"featured_media":59466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1,54,539],"tags":[13388,11545,13389,508],"class_list":["post-59475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-and-law-news","category-business-news","category-pennsylvania-news","category-philadelphia-news","tag-pedestrian-fatality-study","tag-pedestrian-safety","tag-pennsylvania-department-of-transportation","tag-personal-injury-attorney","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":4309,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}