{"id":4490,"date":"2015-03-13T20:34:46","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/?p=4490"},"modified":"2015-03-26T20:36:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T20:36:48","slug":"distracted-driving-demerits-applauded-by-police-and-accident-victim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/news\/distracted-driving-demerits-applauded-by-police-and-accident-victim\/","title":{"rendered":"Distracted driving demerits applauded by police and accident victim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CBC News (EDMONTON, ALBERTA)<\/p>\n<p>Renaye Wade spent two years learning to talk again.\u00a0 This week, the right people finally started listening.<\/p>\n<p>Her voice is quiet, her words halting, but her message has been clear and consistent: Alberta needs much\u00a0tougher distracted driving laws.<\/p>\n<p>A private member\u2019s bill introduced by Tory\u00a0MLA\u00a0Moe\u00a0Amery\u00a0this week proposes a\u00a0fine increase from $172 to $250, and would add three demerit points for drivers caught driving while distracted.\u00a0The bill\u00a0is expected to pass during the spring session of the legislature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/distracted-driving-demerits-applauded-by-police-and-accident-victim-1.2993370\">Continue reading this post\u2026<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CBC News (EDMONTON, ALBERTA) Renaye Wade spent two years learning to talk again.\u00a0 This week, the right people finally started listening. Her voice is quiet, her words halting, but her message has been clear and consistent: Alberta needs much\u00a0tougher distracted&#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-4490","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\/4490","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=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4491,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}