{"id":11365,"date":"2016-06-11T18:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T23:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=11365"},"modified":"2016-06-10T22:17:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T03:17:52","slug":"twra-issues-2016-memorial-day-holiday-weekend-boating-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2016\/06\/11\/twra-issues-2016-memorial-day-holiday-weekend-boating-report\/","title":{"rendered":"TWRA Issues 2016 Memorial Day Holiday Weekend Boating Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-46127\" title=\"Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - TWRA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tennessee-wildlife-resources-agency.gif\" alt=\"Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency - TWRA\" width=\"140\" height=\"137\" \/><strong>Nashville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) is reporting that there were no boating-related fatalities over the 2016 Memorial Day holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>During the period from May 27th-30th, there were four injury accidents and two property damage incidents. TWRA Boating and Law Enforcement officers issued 447 citations and 410 warnings.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_311794\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Boating-1.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-311794\" class=\"wp-image-311794 size-medium\" title=\"In 2015, the Coast Guard counted 4,158 accidents that involved 626 deaths, 2,613 injuries and approximately $42 million dollars of damage to property as a result of recreational boating accidents. \" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Boating-1-480x319.jpg\" alt=\"In 2015, the Coast Guard counted 4,158 accidents that involved 626 deaths, 2,613 injuries and approximately $42 million dollars of damage to property as a result of recreational boating accidents. \" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-311794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2015, the Coast Guard counted 4,158 accidents that involved 626 deaths, 2,613 injuries and approximately $42 million dollars of damage to property as a result of recreational boating accidents.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Among the citations, 21 boating under the influence (BUI) arrests were made.<\/p>\n<p>Officers inspected 9,065 boats during the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the second straight year there were no boating related fatalities during the Memorial Day holiday weekend. The number of BUI arrests was an increase from 12 during the 2015 holiday weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) is reporting that there were no boating-related fatalities over the 2016 Memorial Day holiday weekend. During the period from May 27th-30th, there were four injury accidents and two property damage incidents. TWRA Boating and Law Enforcement officers issued 447 citations and 410 warnings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2746,2747,3724,284,608,973],"class_list":["post-11365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-boating-under-the-influence","tag-bui","tag-memorial-day-weekend","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee-wildlife-resources-agency","tag-twra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11366,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365\/revisions\/11366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}