{"id":4546,"date":"2015-03-23T00:42:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T00:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/?p=4546"},"modified":"2015-04-10T00:43:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T00:43:41","slug":"demerits-and-increased-fines-coming-for-distracted-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/news\/demerits-and-increased-fines-coming-for-distracted-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Demerits and increased fines coming for distracted driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary Herald (CALGARY, ALBERTA)<\/p>\n<p>Drivers in Alberta caught texting behind the wheel, or grooming, programming a GPS or talking on a hand-held cellphone,\u00a0will soon be hit with demerit points and bigger fines after a private member\u2019s bill unanimously passed third reading at the Alberta legislature on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Bill 204, the Traffic Safety (Distracted Driving\u00a0Demerit) Amendment Act, was introduced in December.\u00a0Once the bill is proclaimed, distracted driving fines will jump to $250, from $172, and distracted driving tickets will come with a three-demerit point penalty.<\/p>\n<p>The bill received widespread support from all parties, and police chiefs in Calgary and Edmonton endorsed the bill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/calgaryherald.com\/news\/local-news\/tougher-law-penalizing-distracted-motorists-passes-demerits-and-increased-fines-coming-to-alberta\">Continue reading this post\u2026<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary Herald (CALGARY, ALBERTA) Drivers in Alberta caught texting behind the wheel, or grooming, programming a GPS or talking on a hand-held cellphone,\u00a0will soon be hit with demerit points and bigger fines after a private member\u2019s bill unanimously passed third&#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-4546","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\/4546","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=4546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4547,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4546\/revisions\/4547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsp.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}