{"id":12780,"date":"2017-07-08T20:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=12780"},"modified":"2017-07-08T16:37:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T21:37:55","slug":"twra-reports-no-boating-related-fatalities-over-july-4th-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2017\/07\/08\/twra-reports-no-boating-related-fatalities-over-july-4th-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"TWRA reports No Boating Related Fatalities over July 4th Weekend"},"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 reported there were no boating-related fatalities over the 2017 Independence Day holiday period from June 30th through July 4th.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s holiday period was extended with July 4th falling on a Tuesday. More than 10,700 boats were inspected during the five days. TWRA boating officers made 20 boating under the influence (BUI) arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Officers issued 353 citations, and 303 warnings. They also assisted 483 boaters.<\/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=\"There were five accidents with four injuries over the July 4th Holiday Weekend. \" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Boating-1-480x319.jpg\" alt=\"There were five accidents with four injuries over the July 4th Holiday Weekend. \" width=\"480\" height=\"319\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-311794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There were five accidents with four injuries over the July 4th Holiday Weekend.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->There were five accidents that were investigated with four injuries, two of which were Ocoee River whitewater incidents.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Operation Dry Water (ODW) was held for three days during the holiday period. ODW is a national weekend BUI awareness and enforcement campaign directed toward reducing alcohol and drug-related accidents and fatalities. Thirteen of the BUI arrests came during the three days.<\/p>\n<p>The TWRA Boating and Law Enforcement Division compiled this year\u2019s holiday statistics after receiving reports from the agency\u2019s four regions. The July 4th holiday is considered the peak of boating season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency reported there were no boating-related fatalities over the 2017 Independence Day holiday period from June 30th through July 4th. This year\u2019s holiday period was extended with July 4th falling on a Tuesday. More than 10,700 boats were inspected during the five days. TWRA boating officers made 20 [&hellip;]<\/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":[2618,2746,2747,1333,1358,284,8646,4288,608,973],"class_list":["post-12780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-boating","tag-boating-under-the-influence","tag-bui","tag-independence-day","tag-july-4th","tag-nashville-tn","tag-ocoee-river","tag-operation-dry-water","tag-tennessee-wildlife-resources-agency","tag-twra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780","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=12780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12781,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12780\/revisions\/12781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}