{"id":208909,"date":"2024-01-03T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=208909"},"modified":"2024-01-03T08:53:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T12:53:38","slug":"accident-toll-for-christmas-holidays-38-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/01\/03\/accident-toll-for-christmas-holidays-38-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Accident toll for Christmas holidays: 38 deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"239\" height=\"211\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/COE-logo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131770\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The director of the Center for Emergency Operations, Juan Manuel Mendez said on 2 January 2024 that there were 38 deaths reported over the Christmas and New Year holidays \u2013 23 December to 1 January 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>M\u00e9ndez said most of the cases were recorded in the province of Santo Domingo with 19.8%, the National District and Puerto Plata (6.4%) and Santiago and San Pedro de Macor\u00eds with 5.2%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that 27 of the 38 deaths were in accidents involving motorcycles (71%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first phase of the road safety operation, from Friday, 22 December through Monday, 25 December 2023, the Center for Emergency Operations (COE) had reported 19 persons died in traffic accidents during the Christmas holidays. COE says that most of the dead were involved in crashes with motorcyclists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the second phase of the road safety operation, from 30 December to 1 January 2024,<br>122 traffic accidents were recorded, of which 78 involved motorcycles, 28 light vehicles, 3 minibuses, for 19 deaths. Motorcyclists were involved in 13 of the 19 fatalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The authorities reported that within the framework of the operation the provinces with the most cases were Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo, San Crist\u00f3bal, San Pedro de Macor\u00eds, Santiago, Monse\u00f1or Nouel and La Vega.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/sucesos\/2024\/01\/02\/coe-aumenta-a-38-los-fallecidos-por-accidentes-en-festividades\/2565657\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/coe-38-personas-fallecieron-desde-23-al-dia-primero-de-enero-1561451\/\">Noticias SIN <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/accidentes-por-motos-dejan-27-muertos\/\">Hoy <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 January 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of the Center for Emergency Operations, Juan Manuel Mendez said on 2 January 2024 that there were 38 deaths reported over the Christmas and New Year holidays \u2013 23 December to 1 January 2024. M\u00e9ndez said most of the cases were recorded in the province of Santo Domingo with 19.8%, the National District &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/01\/03\/accident-toll-for-christmas-holidays-38-deaths\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208948,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208909\/revisions\/208948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}