{"id":10330,"date":"2014-12-04T19:04:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T19:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=10330"},"modified":"2014-12-03T19:14:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T19:14:21","slug":"the-numbers-do-not-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=10330","title":{"rendered":"The numbers do not lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 1st December 2014, between the dark hours of 6.30pm and 9pm, Thames Valley Police checked 110 cyclists in Oxford&#8217;s High Street.<\/p>\n<p>How many \u00a350 fixed penalty notices were issued for not having any lights?<\/p>\n<p>Ninety seven.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s 97.<\/p>\n<p>Scandalous.<\/p>\n<p>And let&#8217;s remember where cyclists often put the blame for their accidents.<\/p>\n<p>A \u00a350 penalty is obviously insufficient.<\/p>\n<p>Because, if you read the report, all 97 of these morons can get away without paying the \u00a350 penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps if the fine were \u00a3500?<\/p>\n<p>And there was no loophole that got the law-breakers out of it?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cyclists in Oxford without lights\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oxbox.tv\/oxpage.php?page=news&amp;article=M5oxGlQ5xbng1\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 1st December 2014, between the dark hours of 6.30pm and 9pm, Thames Valley Police checked 110 cyclists in Oxford&#8217;s High Street. How many \u00a350<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}