{"id":4148,"date":"2019-12-09T16:53:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T21:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/?p=4148"},"modified":"2019-12-09T17:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T22:00:01","slug":"holiday-drunk-driving-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/holiday-drunk-driving-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Drunk Driving Accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The holiday season is upon us.\u00a0 With that comes parties, family get-togethers, office events. . .and drunk driving.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4152\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DRUNK-DRIVING-ACCIDENTS-IN-NORTH-CAROLINA-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"DRUNK DRIVING ACCIDENTS\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DRUNK-DRIVING-ACCIDENTS-IN-NORTH-CAROLINA-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DRUNK-DRIVING-ACCIDENTS-IN-NORTH-CAROLINA-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DRUNK-DRIVING-ACCIDENTS-IN-NORTH-CAROLINA-213x120.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/DRUNK-DRIVING-ACCIDENTS-IN-NORTH-CAROLINA.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">It may come as\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a\u00a0surprise<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> to some that the Wednesday before Thanksgiving has surpassed New Year\u2019s\u00a0 as the &#8220;Biggest Drinking Day in the US.\u201d <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Law enforcement hasn\u2019t missed the fact that #<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">BlackOutWednesday<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0is popular with the 21 to 34-year-old set.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dodgejones.com\/blog\/holiday-drunk-driving-accidents\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Holiday Drunk Driving Accidents\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holiday season is upon us.\u00a0 With that comes parties, family get-togethers, office events. . .and drunk driving. It may come as\u00a0a\u00a0surprise to some that the Wednesday before Thanksgiving has surpassed New Year\u2019s\u00a0 as the &#8220;Biggest Drinking Day in the US.\u201d \u00a0 Law enforcement hasn\u2019t missed the fact that #BlackOutWednesday\u00a0is popular with the 21 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[258,256,257],"class_list":["post-4148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motor-vehicle-accidents-blog","tag-compensatory-damages","tag-drunk-driving","tag-punitive-damages"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Holiday Drunk Driving Accidents &#8212; North Carolina Workers&#039; Compensation News &#8212; December 9, 2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The holiday season is upon us.\u00a0 With that comes parties, family get-togethers, office events. . .and drunk driving. 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