{"id":103385,"date":"2018-06-02T07:52:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T12:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=103385"},"modified":"2018-06-02T07:53:47","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T12:53:47","slug":"patrol-failure-to-yield-primary-crash-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/06\/02\/patrol-failure-to-yield-primary-crash-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure to yield said primary crash cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Motorists who do not yield for vehicles with the right-of-way cause far too many crashes each year. Crashes caused by this violation, known as failure to yield, were a primary cause in nearly one in five crashes in Ohio.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/osplogo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"160\" \/>In total, 51,976 crashes on Ohio\u2019s roadways occurred when the at-fault driver failed to yield. \u00a0These crashes tend to be more severe than other types of crashes. Last year, 207 deaths and 30,443 injuries were the result of failure to yield crashes.<\/p>\n<p>The Ohio State Highway Patrol reminds motorists to pay attention to which vehicles have the right-of-way and yield accordingly. Troopers will continue enforcing traffic laws to make Ohio roads safer. In fact, last year troopers wrote 20,567 citations that included a failure to yield violation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know traffic can be frustrating,\u201d said Lt. Jonathon Gray, Van Wert Post Commander. \u201cMotorists should remain calm, be aware of your surroundings and yield for vehicles that have the right-of-way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To view the entire statistical analysis regarding failure to yield crashes and citations, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statepatrol.ohio.gov\/doc\/FTY_Bulletin_2018.pdf\">http:\/\/www.statepatrol.ohio.gov\/doc\/FTY_Bulletin_2018.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As always, the Patrol asks drivers to call # 677 to report impaired drivers or drug activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information Motorists who do not yield for vehicles with the right-of-way cause far too many crashes each year. Crashes caused by this violation, known as failure to yield, were a primary cause in nearly one in five crashes in Ohio. In total, 51,976 crashes on Ohio\u2019s roadways occurred when the at-fault driver failed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 23:36:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}