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Pennsylvania’s ‘most dangerous roads during Thanksgiving’: report
The National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA) has previously reported how Thanksgiving — in marking the start of the holiday season — tends to see an increase in vehicle crashes and fatalities.
A separate report has fleshed out this trend, and has gone so far as to highlight the roads in each state that are “the most dangerous” during the holiday.
Conducted and published by Truckinfo.net — a trucking industry platform dedicated “to help give commercial drivers the tools they need to be successful” — the study pulled data from both the NHTSA and the U.S. Census Bureau relating to fatality statistics on Thanksgiving (the statistics used from the Census were from 2021).
After divvying up the numbers by region, Texas was found to have the most fatalities overall with a total of 73 (or 2.47 per 1 million people).
Pennsylvania ranked quite high as well — 12th overall, with a total of 15 fatalities on the day (1.15 per million).
As for the purported “most dangerous” road in the state, the Truckinfo.net report gives that delineation to I-0078 Northampton County, with the roading seeing five fatalities on Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving 2023 is certainly expected to be one of the busiest, travel-wise, in quite some time: The Associated Press reports how millions of passengers will be crowding airports leading up to the 23rd, while AAA estimates a whopping 55.4 million will travel at least 50 miles from their home to celebrate.
Nationwide, many of the fatalities seen on Thanksgiving can be attributed to drunk driving. Fatalities, too, are up by almost 20 percent when comparing 2020 and 2021 to the two previous years.
The NHSTA stresses that people buckle up “every time” and to, of course, avoid driving under the influence.
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It’s no secret that things that used to be within reach for most families are now significantly more expensive.
As such, many may observe a heightened focus on which family pastimes simply burn holes in your wallets and which give you the most bang for your buck. This one in Pennsylvania has been found to be among the former, at least, according to a new study.
CouponBirds — which is described by its “About Us” page as a company that “focus[es] on collecting, validating, and ranking optimal coupons, to help online shoppers save both time and money” — published a report last week which asked the question “Are These U.S. Family Attractions Too Expensive For What They Offer?”
Researchers answered this question by forming a list of 35,000 family-friendly attractions across the United States of America by searching for ones that were “Good for Kids” by each state’s TripAdvisor page.
Each attraction that was found was then analyzed based on whether or not the word (or words relating to) “expensive” popped up in their reviews. Each was then ranked and the study, finalized.
Hershey’s Chocolate World in Hershey was thus determined to be Pennsylvania’s worst-value attraction for families. On the bright side, at least it didn’t crack the top 20.
No, reader, that honor goes to the likes of Walt Disney Resort, Universal Studios, and Disney’s Magic Kingdom — all of which are in Floria — which took the third, second and first spots, respectively.
“Disney fan website Inside the Magic notes that, in addition to being highly expensive, the magic Kingdom Park has lost much of its ‘magic,’” reads the report. “Overcrowding, long queues and broken rides contribute to a significantly lower overall TripAdvisor rating thank parks Hollywood Studios or EPCOT.”
Other attractions that made it among the top 20 worst for families in the nation were Cedar Point in Ohio — which was ranked 18th overall — and Dollywood in Tennessee (12th).
Gas prices are dropping in western Pennsylvania.
According to AAA, the average price in the area is $3.575, which is 5 cents cheaper than last week.
Below are the average prices for different areas:
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$3.685 Beaver
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$3.568 Butler
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$3.616 Greensburg
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$3.600 Indiana
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$3.599 Jeannette
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$3.698 Kittanning
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$3.559 Latrobe
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$3.717 Mercer
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$3.495 New Castle
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$3.516 New Kensington
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$3.597 Oil City
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$3.609 Pittsburgh
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$3.519 Sharon
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$3.605 Uniontown
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$3.773 Warren
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$3.446 Washington
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