{"id":9955,"date":"2024-01-22T15:18:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T23:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=9955"},"modified":"2024-01-22T15:18:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T23:18:37","slug":"california-leads-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=9955","title":{"rendered":"California Leads the Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Californian is four times more likely to be killed in a hit and run accident than a person living in New York or Illinois. Marc Sternfield of KTLA <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/california\/california-leads-this-nation-in-this-disturbing-statistic\/\">reports<\/a> that data from the National Traffic Safety Board indicate that more than one out of every ten fatal car accidents in the state were hit an run incidents. The national average of traffic fatalities that involve a hit and run driver is 6.33%.\u00a0 It is 10.48% in California. The city with the highest hit and run death rate is San Francisco at 22% followed by Los Angeles with 15%. Most of the Californians killed by hit an run drivers were pedestrians. California also leads the nation on the number of stolen vehicles according to 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valuepenguin.com\/motor-vehicle-theft-statistics\">data<\/a> with over 202,000, nearly twice as many as the second-place state of Texas. So the next time a California politician brags about the state being a national leader, believe him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Californian is four times more likely to be killed in a hit and run accident than a person living in New York or Illinois. Marc Sternfield of KTLA reports that data from the National Traffic Safety Board indicate that more than one out of every ten fatal car accidents in the state were hit an run incidents. The national average of traffic fatalities that involve a hit and run driver is 6.33%.\u00a0 It is 10.48% in California. The city with the highest hit and run death rate is San Francisco at 22% followed by Los Angeles with 15%. Most of the Californians killed by hit an run drivers were pedestrians. California also leads the nation on the number of stolen vehicles according to 2022 data with over 202,000, nearly twice as many as the second-place state of Texas. So the next time a California politician brags about the state being a national leader, believe him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>California Leads the Nation - Crime &amp; Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=9955\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"California Leads the Nation - Crime &amp; Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Californian is four times more likely to be killed in a hit and run accident than a person living in New York or Illinois. 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