{"id":1240,"date":"2013-10-17T16:16:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T15:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2013-10-17T17:16:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T16:16:49","slug":"glare-of-the-sun-causes-nearly-3000-accidents-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/glare-of-the-sun-causes-nearly-3000-accidents-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Glare Of The Sun Causes Nearly 3,000 Accidents A Year."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A report by the AA has warned that the glare of the sun causes nearly 3,000 accidents a year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As autumn turns to winter and the sun sets at around 6.00pm (just as many drivers are hitting the road to head home of an evening), the\u00a0risk of being temporarily \u2018blinded\u2019 by the dazzle of the sun on the windscreen is particularly high, and is likely to last until\u00a0British Summer Time (BST) ends on October 27 and the clocks go back.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article which includes some rules and recommendations for &#8216;sunset&#8217; driving, please follow the link below:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Daily Mail News Article Link.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2461972\/Glare-sun-contributes-3-000-road-accidents-particularly-dangerous-time-year.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2461972\/Glare-sun-contributes-3-000-road-accidents-particularly-dangerous-time-year.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always &#8211; stay safe out there!<br \/>\nChris<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Official Website.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Facebook Post Link.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/drivingschoolssunderland\/posts\/645701875470514\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/drivingschoolssunderland\/posts\/645701875470514<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report by the AA has warned that the glare of the sun causes nearly 3,000 accidents a year. As autumn turns to winter and the sun sets at around 6.00pm (just as many drivers are hitting the road to head home of an evening), the\u00a0risk of being temporarily \u2018blinded\u2019 by the dazzle of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[10,11,12,39,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,40,20,42,43,21,22,41,38,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1242,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrischambers-som.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}