{"id":5274,"date":"2018-04-05T16:18:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T16:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/?p=5274"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:41:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:41:37","slug":"april-is-distracted-driving-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/april-is-distracted-driving-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year thousands of lives are lost due to someone who is not fully concentrating on the road while operating a motor vehicle. A few of the things that people should avoid while driving include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Texting<\/li>\n<li>Eating<\/li>\n<li>Adjusting a radio or GPS<\/li>\n<li>Talking on the phone<\/li>\n<li>Personal grooming<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr. Geoffrey Doughlin, Chairman of Emergency Medicine at Jamaica Hospital, explains in this video why distracted driving is so dangerous.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Distracted Driving Awareness Month- Safe Driving Tips\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8RLdS1xvETQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer\">All content of this newsletter is intended for general information purposes only and is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.  Please consult a medical professional before adopting any of the suggestions on this page.   You must never disregard professional medical advice or delay seeking medical treatment based upon any content of this newsletter.<strong>  PROMPTLY CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN OR CALL 911 IF YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY.<\/strong> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year thousands of lives are lost due to someone who is not fully concentrating on the road while operating a motor vehicle. A few of the things that people should avoid while driving include: Texting Eating Adjusting a radio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/april-is-distracted-driving-awareness-month\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324],"tags":[1270],"class_list":["post-5274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observance","tag-distracted-driving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5274"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5276,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions\/5276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}