{"id":17797,"date":"2011-10-06T10:06:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T17:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/state-patrol-continues-to-find-drivers-breaking-cellphone-law\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T10:50:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T17:50:38","slug":"state-patrol-continues-to-find-drivers-breaking-cellphone-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/state-patrol-continues-to-find-drivers-breaking-cellphone-law\/","title":{"rendered":"State Patrol continues to find drivers breaking cellphone law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Although drivers know they can be cited for texting and talking on a cellphone while driving, <a title=\"cell\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pnwlocalnews.com\/south_king\/tuk\/news\/123647034.html\" target=\"_self\">hundreds of drivers are still stopped each month<\/a> in King County alone, according to a Washington State Patrol media release.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In the month of September, King County troopers stopped 370 drivers for talking on their cellphones and 43 violators for texting while driving. More than half of those drivers received a $124 ticket for the illegal cellphone use.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Drivers are encouraged not to use a cellphone while driving, but if necessary, use a hands-free device to help keep the focus on the roadway.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although drivers know they can be cited for texting and talking on a cellphone while driving, hundreds of drivers are still stopped each month in King County alone, according to a Washington State Patrol media release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":17798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17797"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}