{"id":188102,"date":"2019-12-28T12:30:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T18:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=188102"},"modified":"2020-01-02T06:44:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T12:44:47","slug":"jamestown-police-advisory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=188102","title":{"rendered":"Jamestown Police Advisory snow covered streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2carcrashinSnow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-188378\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2carcrashinSnow-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2carcrashinSnow-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2carcrashinSnow-260x175.jpg 260w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2carcrashinSnow.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jamestown\u00a0 (JPD) The Jamestown Police Department has issued a statement, Saturday reminding\u00a0 drivers to adjust their driving and speeds to the conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The Statement says, \u201cWe often hear people say at accident scenes \u2018I was driving the speed limit. However, we just wanted to point out that we live in North Dakota and the weather is often changing along with the road surfaces.\u00a0 Just because the speed limit is posted, it doesn\u2019t mean you should drive that fast. In conditions like today with low visibility, snow covered icy roads, drivers must use caution and drive at a reasonable speed based on the conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>State Law and City Ordinance: &#8220;No person may drive a vehicle at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the conditions and having regard to the actual and potential hazards then existing\u201d (ND Century Code 39-01-01 or Jamestown City Code 21-06-02- Basic Rule).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, \u201cAny person driving a vehicle upon a street shall drive the vehicle in a careful and prudent manner, having due regard to traffic, surface, and width of the street and other conditions then existing, and shall give such warnings as are reasonably necessary for safe operation under the circumstances. No person may drive any vehicle upon a street in a manner to endanger the life, limb, or property of any person.\u201d (ND Century Code 39-09-01.1 or Jamestown City Code 21-06-02.1- Care Required).<\/p>\n<p>Jamestown Police Advises, \u201cIf you don\u2019t have to drive, please don\u2019t. However, if you must, please use extreme caution, drive slow and turn on your headlights.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (JPD) The Jamestown Police Department has issued a statement, Saturday reminding\u00a0 drivers to adjust their driving and speeds to the conditions. The Statement says, \u201cWe often hear people say at accident scenes \u2018I was driving the speed limit. However, we just wanted to point out that we live in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":188393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188379,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188102\/revisions\/188379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/188393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}