{"id":4712,"date":"2025-06-06T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/news\/4712\/in-numbers-auto-crime-traffic-violations-in-kamloops-okanagan-in-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T05:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:00:20","slug":"in-numbers-auto-crime-traffic-violations-in-kamloops-okanagan-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/news\/4712\/in-numbers-auto-crime-traffic-violations-in-kamloops-okanagan-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"iN NUMBERS: Auto crime, traffic violations in Kamloops, Okanagan in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When you see someone who&#8217;s been pulled over by the cops the right thing to do is slow down, rubber neck and speculate about what kind of ticket they\u2019re about to get of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ICBC has some data to help you satiate that curiosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the numbers for auto crime and traffic violations in Kamloops and the Okanagan in 2024:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1,385: Stolen vehicles in the Southern Interior in 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>756: Vehicle break-ins in the Southern Interior in 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6,400: Dollars is the average cost of car theft.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1,900: Dollars is the average cost of a vehicle break-in.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>556: Impaired driving violations in Kamloops, Kelowna, Penticton and Vernon in 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6,257: Speeding violations in Kelowna in 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>9: Cycling violations for things like riding on the sidewalk in Kelowna in 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3: Flight from peace officer violations in Kelowna in 2024. You can run, but you can\u2019t hide from ICBC data collection.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3: Violations for motorcyclists in Kamloops in 2024, banishing the bad boy biker brand.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>321: Commercial vehicle offences in Kamloops in 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>291: Failure to wear a seatbelt offences in Vernon in 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1: Offence for operating a vehicle with too many people in it in Vernon in 2024. Who doesn\u2019t love a dangerous clown car? Cops, that\u2019s who.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>119: Violations for using an electronic device while driving in Penticton in 2024. Get off that darn TikTok while you\u2019re driving, folks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the numbers for auto crime and traffic violations in Kamloops and the Okanagan in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"guid":"","source":"","byline":"","published":"","updated":"","_infotelid":"","_prepressid":"","_multisite_post_sync":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[],"region":[206,207,208,209],"class_list":["post-4712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","region-kamloops","region-kelowna","region-penticton","region-vernon"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/hd-mediaitemid15464-8614.jpg","post_modified":"2025-06-06T05:00:20","post_modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:00:20","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4712"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=4712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}