{"id":40325,"date":"2025-11-08T00:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T00:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/40325\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T00:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T00:08:14","slug":"vigil-remembers-the-91000-lives-lost-in-texas-crashes-over-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/40325\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil remembers the 91,000 lives lost in Texas crashes over 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 For the last 25 years, at least one person has been killed in a traffic crash in Texas every single day. There have been more than 91,000 lives lost since Nov. 7, 2000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Texas Department of Transportation is holding a candlelight ceremony with the Texas Department of Public Safety and victims\u2019 family members to honor those victims and bring awareness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TxDOT is asking everyone to work together to end the streak of daily deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The ceremony and news conference will take place on the south steps of the Texas State Capitol at 6 p.m. on Friday and will conclude with a moment of silence under candlelight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KXAN Austin.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to KXAN Austin. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 For the last 25 years, at least one person has been killed in a traffic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24748,27,29,28,14772,24749],"class_list":{"0":"post-40325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-candlelight-ceremony","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-texas-headlines","11":"tag-texas-news","12":"tag-texas-state-capitol","13":"tag-traffic-crash"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}