{"id":521390,"date":"2023-08-17T15:13:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/this-august-17th-world-pedestrian-day-is-celebrated\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T15:13:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:13:17","slug":"this-august-17th-world-pedestrian-day-is-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/this-august-17th-world-pedestrian-day-is-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"This August 17th, World Pedestrian Day is celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This August 17th marks World Pedestrian Day, a day that was created to commemorate the first recorded traffic accident in history. The event occurred in 1897, when Bridget Driscoll was struck by a vehicle in England, dying on the spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then, to raise awareness regarding traffic rules, the death of this mother, who was walking in the company of her daughter May and a friend toward London&#8217;s Crystal Palace, served to regulate the use of the automobile that was just becoming widespread in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You can read: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/atencion-adictos-al-celular-hong-kong-coloca-semaforos-en-la-acera-para-peatones\/\">Attention cell phone addicts! Hong Kong installs traffic lights on the sidewalk for pedestrians<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of them were going to see a dance show, but due to the recklessness of Arthur James Edsell who was driving a Roger-Benz at a speed of 10 kilometers per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Infobae, some witnesses saw that \u201ca car was traveling at a reckless pace, like a fire engine or as fast as a good horse could gallop,\u201d they maintained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This August 17th marks World Pedestrian Day, a day that was created to commemorate the first recorded traffic accident in history. The event occurred in 1897, when Bridget Driscoll was struck by a vehicle in England, dying on the spot. Since then, to raise awareness regarding traffic rules, the death of this mother, who was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":521391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[44688],"class_list":["post-521390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-pedestrian"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-2bDw","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/peaton.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/peaton.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}