{"id":239561,"date":"2025-10-20T21:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/239561\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T21:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:58:07","slug":"overland-park-ranked-2nd-safest-city-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/239561\/","title":{"rendered":"Overland Park ranked 2nd safest city in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (KCTV) &#8211; Overland Park was named the 2nd safest city in America by <a href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/safest-cities-in-america\/41926\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/safest-cities-in-america\/41926\">WalletHub.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Safe roads and financial safety are the leading factors as for why it is ranked so high. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt has the fifth-lowest pedestrian fatality rate in the country along with the 21st-lowest percentage of uninsured motorists. While accidents do occur, the city fortunately has the 15th-lowest traffic fatalities rate among the cities analyzed,\u201d said WalletHub. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Other cities ranked in safety as:<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City, Missouri &#8211; 145Wichita &#8211; 63St. Louis &#8211; 157<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (KCTV) &#8211; Overland Park was named the 2nd safest city in America by WalletHub. Safe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,4412,3,132246,2785,21,19,22,20,25,24,13687],"class_list":{"0":"post-239561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-kansas","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-overland-park","12":"tag-safety","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa","19":"tag-wallethub"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239561","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=239561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}