{"id":29,"date":"2005-10-05T11:59:34","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T07:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=29"},"modified":"2005-10-05T11:59:34","modified_gmt":"2005-10-05T07:59:34","slug":"ramadan-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/29\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramadan Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gulfnews.com\/Articles\/NationNF.asp?ArticleID=185193\"><em>Gulf News<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The emirate&#8217;s roads witnessed a tremendous rise in the number of accidents on the first day of Ramadan, a police official told Gulf News yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There have been many accidents today. They are all minor, but the number is very high,&#8221; said Lieutenant Ali Mohammad from the operations room in Dubai yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been receiving a great number of calls regarding accident reports. The number was so high that we had difficulty in sending police patrols to all the scenes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are surprised at the number of accident reports we are getting. I don&#8217;t really know the reason behind it, but it might be that Ramadan has affected motorists and their ability to concentrate while driving.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Forcing drivers to become severely dehydrated in 30\u00baC+ temperatures causes an increase in accidents? Fancy that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Gulf News: The emirate&#8217;s roads witnessed a tremendous rise in the number of accidents on the first day of Ramadan, a police official told Gulf News yesterday. &#8220;There have been many accidents today. They are all minor, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/29\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}