{"id":10485,"date":"2019-02-28T21:17:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T21:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/?p=10485"},"modified":"2019-03-06T21:17:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T21:17:58","slug":"87-people-lost-a-vehicle-for-a-week-because-of-cellphone-tickets-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/news\/87-people-lost-a-vehicle-for-a-week-because-of-cellphone-tickets-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"87 people lost a vehicle for a week because of cellphone tickets last year"},"content":{"rendered":"SGI (REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConfessions of a Reformed Distracted Driver\u201d is part of the March Traffic Safety Spotlight<\/p>\n<p>Losing your vehicle for a week for something as trivial as being unable to leave your phone alone sounds pretty terrible, right?<\/p>\n<p>Under The Traffic Safety Act, receiving a second $280 cellphone ticket within a year triggers an immediate roadside vehicle impoundment. That means the vehicle is towed from roadside and impounded for seven days, while the owner is stuck with the bill for towing and storage (usually at least $400). It also results in four demerits under SGI\u2019s Safe Driver Recognition program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sgi.sk.ca\/news?title=87-people-lost-a-vehicle-for-a-week-because-of-cellphone-tickets-last-year\">Continue reading this post\u2026<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SGI (REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN) \u201cConfessions of a Reformed Distracted Driver\u201d is part of the March Traffic Safety Spotlight Losing your vehicle for a week for something as trivial as being unable to leave your phone alone sounds pretty terrible, right? Under&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-road-safety-news-digest","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10486,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10485\/revisions\/10486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}