{"id":79568,"date":"2025-12-23T21:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/79568\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:47:07","slug":"deadly-crashes-decline-in-new-york-and-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/79568\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly crashes decline in New York and Vermont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ALBANY, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; Fatal crashes are down in both New York and Vermont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/dmv.ny.gov\/news\/new-york-state-sees-sharp-drop-in-fatal-crashes\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/dmv.ny.gov\/news\/new-york-state-sees-sharp-drop-in-fatal-crashes\">new data from the New York State Governor\u2019s Traffic Safety Committee<\/a>, between January and October, fatalities on Empire State roads fell from 766 in 2024 to 681 this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vsp.vermont.gov\/trafficsafety\/fatalities\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/vsp.vermont.gov\/trafficsafety\/fatalities\">In Vermont, those numbers are also declining<\/a> overall. From January to December, the state had 54 fatal crashes this year. That\u2019s compared to 51 last year, but 62 the year before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deadly motorcycle crashes were also down in New York, from 157 last year to 134 this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officials say while the data is encouraging, it\u2019s still important to stay safe on the roads, especially with incoming inclement weather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; Fatal crashes are down in both New York and Vermont. According to new data&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7339,4325,39533,1015,3662,93,9,11,10,12,1634,1631,39534,1068],"class_list":["post-79568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-accidents","tag-crashes","tag-deadly","tag-deaths","tag-fatal","tag-new","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-vermont","tag-wcax","tag-wrecks","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}