{"id":8196,"date":"2022-08-19T23:33:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T23:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/us-department-of-transportation-stats-show-rise-in-nj-traffic-deaths\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T23:33:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T23:33:40","slug":"us-department-of-transportation-stats-show-rise-in-nj-traffic-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=8196","title":{"rendered":"US Department of Transportation stats show rise in NJ traffic deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"public-at\">August 19, 2022 at 10:14 p.m<\/span><span class=\"text\">Updated 1 hour ago<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For: <\/span><span class=\"author\">News 12 Personal<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Traffic deaths in New Jersey continue to rise even after a 14-year record high in 2021, according to the US Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n<p>The DOT released statistics showing that traffic deaths have increased by 13.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers say they wish people would slow down and not drive so wildly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People drive like maniacs in New Jersey,&#8221; says Brittany Dinelle.  &#8220;I&#8217;ve lived here all my life. I don&#8217;t know why people are in such a hurry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Keith Fletcher says it would be great if people were less aggressive on the road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are people unhappy in their lives and that makes them act out on the roads?&#8221;  says Fletcher.  &#8220;I feel like people aren&#8217;t interacting directly with other people, that gives them the ability to act more aggressively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The DOT also cited failure to wear seat belts and driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs as contributing to the increase in fatalities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/connecticut.news12.com\/us-department-of-transportation-stats-show-rise-in-nj-traffic-deaths\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 19, 2022 at 10:14 p.mUpdated 1 hour ago For: News 12 Personal Traffic deaths in New Jersey continue to rise even after a 14-year record high in 2021, according to the US Department of Transportation. The DOT released statistics showing that traffic deaths have increased by 13.7%. Drivers say they wish people would slow down and not drive so wildly. &#8220;People drive like maniacs in New Jersey,&#8221; says Brittany Dinelle. &#8220;I&#8217;ve lived here all my life. I don&#8217;t know why people are in such a hurry.&#8221; Keith Fletcher says it would be great if people were less aggressive on&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}