{"id":6741,"date":"2026-07-29T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/?p=7788520"},"modified":"2026-07-29T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:00:12","slug":"in-numbers-lets-be-safe-out-there-this-bc-day-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/news\/6741\/in-numbers-lets-be-safe-out-there-this-bc-day-long-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"iN NUMBERS: Let&#8217;s be safe out there this BC Day long weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BC Day long weekend is coming up and that probably means travelling and if that means travelling, that means you&#8217;ll want to know some of these ICBC statistics \u2014 for safety and not-so-fun facts on a long drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s break them down:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>71: <\/strong>As a percentage, that&#8217;s how much higher fatigue-related crashes are in July and August compared to other months, according to police data.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>325:<\/strong> As a percentage, that&#8217;s the increased likelihood of being injured or killed in a motorcycle crash compared to people in a car.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1,637:<\/strong> That&#8217;s how many crashes, on average, every BC Day long weekend in the Lower Mainland.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>424:<\/strong> That&#8217;s how many people are injured in Lower Mainland crashes every BC Day long weekend.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>414:<\/strong> That&#8217;s how many crashes, on average, there are every BC Day long weekend in the BC Interior.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>85:<\/strong> That&#8217;s how many people are injured in Southern Interior crashes every BC Day long weekend.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2:<\/strong> On average, that&#8217;s how many people are killed in crashes on the BC Day long weekend.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>606:<\/strong> That&#8217;s how many crashes, on average, there are every BC Day long weekend across the province.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two people, on average, die in crashes on the BC Day long weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":445,"featured_media":6742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"guid":"","source":"","byline":"","published":"","updated":"","_infotelid":"","_prepressid":"","_multisite_post_sync":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1285,492,493],"tags":[],"region":[206,207,208,209],"class_list":["post-6741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-local","category-topnews","region-kamloops","region-kelowna","region-penticton","region-vernon"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"post_modified":"2026-07-29T15:00:12","post_modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T22:00:12","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/inwheels-hd-mediaitemid41075-6251.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6741"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.infonews.ca\/inwheels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=6741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}