{"id":14490,"date":"2013-12-14T21:05:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T21:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14490"},"modified":"2013-12-14T21:05:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T21:05:09","slug":"pregnant-driver-blames-baby-for-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=14490","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant Driver Blames Baby For Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Knowles-Dixon, 28, <a title=\"Pregnant driver who crashed into elderly cyclist blamed unborn baby kicking\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/law-and-order\/10516193\/Pregnant-driver-who-crashed-into-elderly-cyclist-blamed-unborn-baby-kicking.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lost control of her car on a country road and ploughed into an elderly cyclist<\/a>. The cyclist suffered severe head and chest injuries as he was thrown some distance from his bike.<\/p>\n<p>Knowles-Dixon blamed the accident in Devon on her unborn child, who she claimed kicked her hard in the ribs.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrates bought the story and she was fined just \u00a3150 and given 3 points on her licence. Anyone else, particularly if they were male, would undoubtedly have suffered far more severe penalties.<\/p>\n<p>As you might expect, no one has raised the obvious point that pregnant women maybe ought not to be allowed anywhere near a car if they are capable of such dangerous actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Knowles-Dixon, 28, lost control of her car on a country road and ploughed into an elderly cyclist. The cyclist suffered severe head and chest injuries as he was thrown some distance from his bike. Knowles-Dixon blamed the accident in Devon on her unborn child, who she claimed kicked her hard in the ribs. Magistrates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[86,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-drivers","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}