{"id":421,"date":"2016-10-20T17:06:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T17:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.johnwhittingdale.co.uk\/?p=421"},"modified":"2021-08-19T11:18:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T11:18:39","slug":"john-attends-speed-awareness-day-in-burnham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"John attends speed awareness day in Burnham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">John&nbsp;attended a road safety awareness day in Burnham. The event which was organised outside the Co-op in Burnham saw the Essex Police roads policing team, Burnham speed watch group and the Safer Essex Roads Partnership on hand to answer any questions. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">Following a fatal crash in Southminster in April and a serious crash in Bradwell on Sea in May, the event was aimed to raise awareness about speeding issues on the Dengie. Police have also been carrying out a number of speed checks across Burnham in recent months.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">John Whittingdale said: \u201cThe number of road traffic accidents in the District has long been a matter of concern, particularly as a number have resulted in serious injuries or fatalities. &nbsp;Overwhelmingly the causes of these have been excessive speed, alcohol or the use of mobile phones. All three are illegal and I welcome this initiative to get across the message that drivers must remain safe\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"740\" height=\"718\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1940\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John&nbsp;attended a road safety awareness day in Burnham. The event which was organised outside the Co-op in Burnham saw the Essex Police roads policing team, Burnham speed watch group and the Safer Essex Roads Partnership on hand to answer any questions. Following a fatal crash in Southminster in April and a serious crash in Bradwell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1940,"comment_status":"closed","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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}