{"id":40641,"date":"2025-05-17T20:35:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T20:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/at-1-5-lakh-pedestrians-made-up-20-of-road-deaths-in-5-years\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T20:35:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T20:35:54","slug":"at-1-5-lakh-pedestrians-made-up-20-of-road-deaths-in-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/at-1-5-lakh-pedestrians-made-up-20-of-road-deaths-in-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"At 1.5 lakh, pedestrians made up 20% of road deaths in 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 1.5 lakh pedestrians died in India from 2019-2023, highlighting their vulnerability despite having right-of-way. A Supreme Court panel audit revealed that footpath availability varies widely across states, often not meeting standards. The court emphasized pedestrians&#8217; rights under Article 21, advocating for accessible, encroachment-free footpaths as a crucial, low-cost safety measure.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 1.5 lakh pedestrians died in India from 2019-2023, highlighting their vulnerability despite having right-of-way. A Supreme Court panel audit revealed that footpath availability varies widely across states, often not meeting standards. The court emphasized pedestrians&#8217; rights under Article 21, advocating for accessible, encroachment-free footpaths as a crucial, low-cost safety measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":40642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}