{"id":139286,"date":"2026-02-01T01:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T01:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139286\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T01:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T01:56:08","slug":"numerous-crashes-reported-in-onslow-county-as-snow-accumulates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139286\/","title":{"rendered":"Numerous crashes reported in Onslow County as snow accumulates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ONSLOW COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Several weather-related crashes have been reported in Onslow County today, where a few inches of snow already accumulated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As of 5 p.m., officials have reported 29 crashes since 12:30 p.m., along with 3.75 inches of snow in the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Highway 17 bypass in Jacksonville and Wilson Boulevard at the Wilson Gate closed earlier but has reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">County officials advise everyone to avoid traveling unless necessary to reduce the number of crashes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the North Carolina Department of Transportation, seven motor graters are working in Onslow County to help maintain road conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As a reminder, all flights in and out of the Albert J. Ellis airport are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/01\/31\/flights-canceled-all-three-enc-airports-saturday-night\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/01\/31\/flights-canceled-all-three-enc-airports-saturday-night\/\">canceled today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Onslow County is currently under a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/01\/30\/multiple-cities-towns-counties-have-states-emergency-some-with-curfews\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.witn.com\/2026\/01\/30\/multiple-cities-towns-counties-have-states-emergency-some-with-curfews\/\">state of emergency<\/a> and also has a curfew from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily until further notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ONSLOW COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Several weather-related crashes have been reported in Onslow County today, where a few&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6731,67819,7903,1776,1994,67820,67821,116,118,117,4481,1854,12343,4480],"class_list":["post-139286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-airport","tag-albert-j-ellis","tag-county","tag-crash","tag-crashes","tag-curfew","tag-highway-17","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-nc","tag-north-carolina","tag-onslow-county","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}