{"id":144472,"date":"2018-01-08T02:48:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T07:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=144472"},"modified":"2018-01-08T02:48:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T07:48:43","slug":"ohio-to-require-fencing-after-sandbag-hits-car-kills-man-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/08\/ohio-to-require-fencing-after-sandbag-hits-car-kills-man-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio to require fencing after sandbag hits car, kills man"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_144482\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144482\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/chainlink-690503_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144482\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/chainlink-690503_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"(Pixabay photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/chainlink-690503_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/chainlink-690503_960_720-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/chainlink-690503_960_720-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bridge where the sandbag was dropped had fencing, but much of it was removed for a reconstruction project (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TOLEDO, Ohio &#8212; The Ohio Department of Transportation is planning to require fencing at some overpass construction sites after a Michigan man was killed by a sandbag thrown through a car windshield.<\/p>\n<p>The department is drafting a new rule that would require temporary fencing when it removes permanent barriers at construction sites.<\/p>\n<p>The change comes after 22-year-old Marquise Byrd, of Warren, Michigan, died in December after a car he was riding in was struck by a sandbag tossed onto Interstate 75 in Toledo.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have charged four teenagers with throwing the sandbag and other objects at cars.<\/p>\n<p>The bridge where the sandbag was dropped had fencing, but much of it was removed for a reconstruction project.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, the transportation department agreed to increase the number of highway overpasses with fencing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOLEDO, Ohio &#8212; The Ohio Department of Transportation is planning to require fencing at some overpass construction sites after a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":144482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,16],"tags":[42174,42206,732,42205,42207],"class_list":["post-144472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-news","tag-fencing","tag-marquise-byrd","tag-michigan","tag-ohio-department-of-transportation","tag-sandbag","mauthors-john-seewer","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}