{"id":230680,"date":"2025-10-17T04:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/230680\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T04:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T04:27:07","slug":"how-many-deer-collisions-take-place-in-the-mohawk-valley-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/230680\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Deer Collisions Take Place in the Mohawk Valley? | Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Deer Crash\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1125\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/670ff98e28e64.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"150\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AP<\/p>\n<p>UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; Drivers are urged to exercise caution during the fall months as deer and moose become more active.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a reminder from the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles and Department of Environmental Conservation.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the University at Albany\u2019s Institute for Traffic Safety Management and Research reported 32,287 crashes involving deer and 7,616 involving other animals across the State.<\/p>\n<p>These incidents peak in October, November and December.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the Mohawk Valley saw 403 deer-related crashes in Herkimer County, 1,310 in Oneida County and 480 in Otsego County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If a collision occurs, move your vehicle to a safe location and turn on hazard lights, according to the DMV. Then, call the police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are between 1.1 million to 1.3 million white-tailed deer in New York State, and there are roughly 700 moose in the Adirondack region of the state, with a handful also along the Vermont and Massachusetts borders,&#8221; according to the DMV.<\/p>\n<p>Deer and moose are frequently encountered by drivers during dawn and dusk hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; Drivers are urged to exercise caution during the fall months as deer and moose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[6271,10740,69771,128648,128647,21335,107885,128649,79,201],"class_list":["post-230680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-dec","tag-deer","tag-dmv","tag-herkimer-county","tag-mohawk-valley","tag-new-york-state","tag-oneida-county","tag-otsego-county","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}