{"id":408,"date":"2015-01-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/black-ice-blamed-for-multi-car-pileups-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T12:29:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:29:27","slug":"black-ice-blamed-for-multi-car-pileups-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/black-ice-blamed-for-multi-car-pileups-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Black ice blamed for multi-car pileups in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are venturing out today, it is likely that you have heard warnings about black ice being present on roads across New York. Streets and highways likely provided drivers on Sunday with harrowing experiences because of the thin, invisible sheets of ice that coat the roads once freezing rain actually freezes on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/video\/flash-freeze-500-accidents-roads-28319822\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News reports<\/a> that nearly 500 accidents occurred over the weekend across the northeast, with huge accidents occurring in New Jersey and New York. On I-95 in the Garden State, a 30 vehicle accident injured 16 people. Outside of New York City, a 60 vehicle crash injured more than 30 people and left one dead. In fact, the New York City Fire Department received more than 3,500 calls for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/car-accidents.html\">accidents<\/a> due to slippery roads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the weather calls for another reminder for drivers of the legal implications of failing to use reasonable care on the road. Yes, there are instances where the weather can cause conditions so unpredictable that an accident may occur despite one\u2019s best efforts. But drivers should be wary of conditions and realize that reducing speed on potentially icy roads can also reduce the chances of being in a crash.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/black-ice-blamed-for-multi-car-pileups-in-new-york\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Black ice blamed for multi-car pileups in New York\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are venturing out today, it is likely that you have heard warnings about black ice being present on roads across New York. Streets and highways likely provided drivers on Sunday with harrowing experiences because of the thin, invisible sheets of ice that coat the roads once freezing rain actually freezes on the ground. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-accidents","tag-car-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Black ice blamed for multi-car pileups in New York &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; January 21, 2015<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Black ice blamed for multi-car pileups in New York - Car Accidents - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\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.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/black-ice-blamed-for-multi-car-pileups-in-new-york\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Black ice blamed for multi-car pileups in New York &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; January 21, 2015\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Black ice blamed for multi-car pileups in New York - Car Accidents - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeff DeFrancisco\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Black ice blamed for multi-car pileups in New York &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; January 21, 2015","description":"Black ice blamed for multi-car pileups in New York - Car Accidents - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/black-ice-blamed-for-multi-car-pileups-in-new-york\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Black ice blamed for multi-car pileups in New York &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; January 21, 2015","twitter_description":"Black ice blamed for multi-car pileups in New York - Car Accidents - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jeff DeFrancisco","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/black-ice-blamed-for-multi-car-pileups-in-new-york\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/black-ice-blamed-for-multi-car-pileups-in-new-york\/"},"author":{"name":"Jeff DeFrancisco","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/798006ba40dee3a60d61603f8022a9f9"},"headline":"Black ice blamed for multi-car pileups in New York","datePublished":"2015-01-21T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2017-10-23T16:29:27+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/black-ice-blamed-for-multi-car-pileups-in-new-york\/"},"wordCount":295,"keywords":["Car Accidents"],"articleSection":["Car Accidents"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/black-ice-blamed-for-multi-car-pileups-in-new-york\/","url":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/black-ice-blamed-for-multi-car-pileups-in-new-york\/","name":"Black ice blamed for multi-car pileups in New York &#8212; Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog &#8212; January 21, 2015","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2015-01-21T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2017-10-23T16:29:27+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/798006ba40dee3a60d61603f8022a9f9"},"description":"Black ice blamed for multi-car pileups in New York - Car Accidents - DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano Law Firm","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/black-ice-blamed-for-multi-car-pileups-in-new-york\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/black-ice-blamed-for-multi-car-pileups-in-new-york\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/black-ice-blamed-for-multi-car-pileups-in-new-york\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Black ice blamed for multi-car pileups in New York"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/","name":"Syracuse Personal Injury Law Blog","description":"Published by New York Medical Malpractice Attorneys \u2014 DeFrancisco &amp; Falgiatano","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/798006ba40dee3a60d61603f8022a9f9","name":"Jeff DeFrancisco","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f6660cf0b9e029623b52ccc2e33d1fef7eb66d590325c2b6a1fb85d5ef1e2cb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f6660cf0b9e029623b52ccc2e33d1fef7eb66d590325c2b6a1fb85d5ef1e2cb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7f6660cf0b9e029623b52ccc2e33d1fef7eb66d590325c2b6a1fb85d5ef1e2cb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jeff DeFrancisco"}}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1719,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/1719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}