https:\/\/youtu.be\/lgPfcD08xuY<\/a> – An Avg of 10 People Die Every Day on Texas Roads<\/p>\nStatewide Statistics:<\/p>\n
3,641 traffic deaths in 2018 (2,893 so far in 2019)
\n3,526 average number of fatalities \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or 10 jumbo jet crashes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c every year
\n747 people killed in 2018
\n625 pedestrians killed in 2018 traffic crashes
\n403 people were killed in distracted driving crashes in 2018
\n1 out of 4 deaths were caused by drunk driving
\n984 unbuckled people died in traffic crashes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER — November 7, 2000 was the last deathless day on Texas roadways. TxDOT held a press conference on Thursday to bring awareness about the Anniversary. The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Texas Tag 10 Challenge\u00e2\u20ac\u009d issued by Texas Transportation Commissioner Laura Ryan is similar to the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ice bucket challenge.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Commissioner Ryan is asking every Texan to share via social … Continue reading End The Streak of Daily Death on TX Roadways<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":821119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 10:35:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=831640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831654,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831640\/revisions\/831654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/821119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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TYLER — November 7, 2000 was the last deathless day on Texas roadways. TxDOT held a press conference on Thursday to bring awareness about the Anniversary. The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Texas Tag 10 Challenge\u00e2\u20ac\u009d issued by Texas Transportation Commissioner Laura Ryan is similar to the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ice bucket challenge.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Commissioner Ryan is asking every Texan to share via social media what they are doing to end the daily death streak. Statewide almost 67,000 people have died since it started.<\/p>\n