{"id":193293,"date":"2025-05-27T20:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T01:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=193293"},"modified":"2025-05-27T20:58:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T01:58:52","slug":"oshp-releases-holiday-traffic-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/05\/27\/oshp-releases-holiday-traffic-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"OSHP releases holiday traffic stats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent news<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; The Ohio State Highway Patrol is reporting 11 fatal crashes that resulted in 12 deaths during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, defined as Friday, May 23, through Monday, May 26.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/OSHP-Logo-e1532741570657.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-105227\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s half of the traffic fatalities that occurred during a similar reporting period in 2024. None of this year\u2019s fatal crashes occurred locally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the OSHP, troopers made 17,034 traffic enforcement contacts during this year\u2019s reporting period. 410 were impaired driving arrests, 70 were drug arrests, and 2,090 safety belt citations were issued. In addition, there were 9,515 non-enforcement contacts, including 1,746 motorist assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top five counties for incidents were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Franklin County: 1,061<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cuyahoga County: 853<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clark County: 722<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Clermont County: 694<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mahoning County: 642<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent news COLUMBUS &#8212; The Ohio State Highway Patrol is reporting 11 fatal crashes that resulted in 12 deaths during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, defined as Friday, May 23, through Monday, May 26. That\u2019s half of the traffic fatalities that occurred during a similar reporting period in 2024. None of this year\u2019s fatal [&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-193293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-31 23:18:32","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\/193293","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=193293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193294,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193293\/revisions\/193294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}