{"id":1073,"date":"2023-10-24T17:06:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T17:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2023-12-15T17:10:08","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T17:10:08","slug":"distracted-drivers-at-avenue-rd-davenport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/distracted-drivers-at-avenue-rd-davenport\/","title":{"rendered":"Distracted drivers at Avenue Rd. &amp; Davenport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 id=\"toronto-police-officer-stops-3-distracted-drivers-all-on-their-cellphones-at-the-same-time\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Toronto police officer stops 3 distracted drivers \u2014 all on their cellphones \u2014 at the same time<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday afternoon, Toronto police officer Kirk Papadopoulos was parked on a curbside near&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/D8Ef64NNaUU8wiSb6\">Avenue Road and Davenport Road<\/a>&nbsp;in his unmarked car when he stopped three distracted drivers within the span of about 30 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThree distracted drivers and they all didn\u2019t notice me. I was in full uniform. They didn\u2019t notice me, I guess, because they were so focused on their cellphone while at the intersections of traffic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officer Papadopoulos works for Toronto police\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tps.ca\/media-centre\/stories\/traffic-team-enforces-vision-for-safe-roads\/\">Traffic Services Vision Zero Unit<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/toronto-police-officer-stops-3-distracted-drivers-all-on-their-cellphones-at-the-same-time\/article_7f56a51b-377c-5efc-b6d2-547ad6385c66.html\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto police officer stops 3 distracted drivers&nbsp;<\/a>\u2013 Toronto Star, October 24, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Toronto police officer stops 3 distracted drivers \u2014 all on their cellphones \u2014 at the same time.<\/strong>On Monday afternoon, Toronto police officer Kirk Papadopoulos was parked on a curbside near\u00a0Avenue Road and Davenport Road\u00a0in his unmarked car when he stopped three distracted drivers within the span of about 30 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avenueroadsafetycoalition.ca\/abcra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}