{"id":3722,"date":"2014-10-08T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/?p=3722"},"modified":"2014-10-17T20:32:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T20:32:24","slug":"b-c-takes-first-step-in-renewed-fight-against-distracted-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/news\/b-c-takes-first-step-in-renewed-fight-against-distracted-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C. takes first step in renewed fight against distracted driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government of B.C. (VICTORIA, B.C.)<\/p>\n<p>The Province is taking a first step in what will be a two-part approach to protect British Columbians from distracted drivers on roads and highways.<\/p>\n<p>First, effective Oct. 20, 2014, amendments to the Motor Vehicle Act (MVA) regulations will increase the driver penalty points from zero to three for drivers who are caught talking on a handheld device while driving. This new penalty, which also covers infractions like watching a DVD, programming a phone\u2019s GPS, and operating hand-held audio players, is being combined with the $167 fine already in place and is now consistent with the three points and $167 fine currently given to drivers for texting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca\/2014\/10\/bc-takes-first-step-in-renewed-fight-against-distracted-driving.html\">Continue reading this post\u2026<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government of B.C. (VICTORIA, B.C.) The Province is taking a first step in what will be a two-part approach to protect British Columbians from distracted drivers on roads and highways. First, effective Oct. 20, 2014, amendments to the Motor Vehicle&#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-3722","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\/3722","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=3722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3728,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions\/3728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}