{"id":163,"date":"2011-07-05T11:31:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T11:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sure2insure.co.uk\/?p=163"},"modified":"2011-07-05T11:31:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T11:31:47","slug":"instant-penalties-for-aggressive-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Instant penalties for aggressive drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Careless and aggressive drivers are to face on the spot fines, the BBC has reported.<\/p>\n<p>New police powers to be announced by the Department for Transport today will mean that motorists caught driving too close for safety or overtaking in a reckless manner can expect a minimum \u00a380 instant penalty and three points on their licence.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme could be introduced in England, Wales and Scotland by 2012 and will be accompanied by a crackdown on drug-driving and the closing of loopholes that have been known to allow drink-drivers to escape punishment.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, courts will be encouraged to make more use of their powers to seize vehicles, the BBC reports.<\/p>\n<p>source: http:\/\/www.insurancedaily.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Careless and aggressive drivers are to face on the spot fines, the BBC has reported. New police powers to be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sure2insure.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}