{"id":12042,"date":"2018-01-04T00:28:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T05:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=12042"},"modified":"2018-01-04T02:46:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T07:46:52","slug":"5-most-dangerous-roads-ocean-county-leads-state-in-traffic-fatalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2018\/01\/5-most-dangerous-roads-ocean-county-leads-state-in-traffic-fatalities\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Most Dangerous Roads: Ocean County Leads State in Traffic Fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2251\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/route70_2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2251\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/route70_2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Work being performed on Route 70 between Chambers Bridge Road and Forge Pond in Brick. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/route70_2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/route70_2-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/route70_2.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Work being performed on Route 70 between Chambers Bridge Road and Forge Pond in Brick. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As drivers prepared for a harrowing commute during Thursday\u2019s snowstorm, state officials announced sobering news: Ocean County had more traffic fatalities than any other in 2016, with several local roads ranking as some of the state\u2019s most dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>A report from the New Jersey State Police this week, first analyzed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njspotlight.com\/stories\/18\/01\/01\/the-list-new-jersey-s-deadliest-counties-for-traffic-fatalities-in-past-year\/?utm_content=buffer1d857&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">NJ Spotlight<\/a>, said Ocean County ended 2016 with 53 fatal accidents resulting in 54 deaths. The majority of accidents occurred on the same roads.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Route 70: 9 fatal accidents.<\/li>\n<li>Garden State Parkway: 8 fatal accidents.<\/li>\n<li>County Route 528 (Mantoloking Road, Cedar Bridge Avenue): 4 fatal accidents.<\/li>\n<li>Route 9: Multiple Accidents (exact number not available).<\/li>\n<li>Route 88: Multiple Accidents (exact number not available).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall, traffic fatalities last year in New Jersey were up 5.6 percent, after already rising more than 7 percent in 2016. There were 603 fatal crashes statewide last year.<\/p>\n<p>County and municipal officials have been actively pleading with the state Department of Transportation to expand the beleaguered Route 9 corridor, which is not only the site of accidents, but adds vehicles to the Garden State Parkway since traffic jams make it a less-than-viable alternative for commuters.<\/p>\n<p>The state agency, each recent year, has told the officials that budget woes have kept the Route 9 project \u2013 which would require land purchases and road reconstruction work \u2013 out of reach.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2018\/01\/5-most-dangerous-roads-ocean-county-leads-state-in-traffic-fatalities\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As drivers prepared for a harrowing commute during Thursday\u2019s snowstorm, state officials announced sobering news: Ocean County had more traffic fatalities than any other in 2016, with several local roads ranking as some of the state\u2019s most dangerous. A report from the New Jersey State Police this week, first analyzed by NJ Spotlight, said Ocean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2251,"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[438,170,287,625],"class_list":["post-12042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-cedar-bridge-avenue","tag-garden-state-parkway","tag-route-70","tag-route-88"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/route70_2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-38e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}