{"id":179880,"date":"2024-05-30T03:37:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T08:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=179880"},"modified":"2024-05-30T03:37:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T08:37:22","slug":"holiday-weekend-fatal-crashes-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/05\/30\/holiday-weekend-fatal-crashes-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday weekend fatal crashes down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Figures released by the Ohio State Highway Patrol show 17 people were killed in traffic crashes during the four-day Memorial Day holiday weekend, a sharp decrease from the same time period in 2023, when 26 people lost their lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crashes included a triple fatality in Scioto and a double fatality in Montgomery County. The highway patrol five of those killed in the overall number of crashes were operating a vehicle under the influence. Four people were not wearing a seat belt and four motorcycle riders killed were reported as either \u201cnot wearing a helmet or unknown if they were wearing a helmet.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the recent Memorial Day weekend period, the highway patrol&nbsp;made 361 OVI arrests, 61 drug arrests, issued more than 1,000 distracted driving citations and more than 2,600 seat belt citations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff COLUMBUS &#8212; Figures released by the Ohio State Highway Patrol show 17 people were killed in traffic crashes during the four-day Memorial Day holiday weekend, a sharp decrease from the same time period in 2023, when 26 people lost their lives. The crashes included a triple fatality in Scioto and a double [&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-179880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 05:50:40","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\/179880","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=179880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179892,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179880\/revisions\/179892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}