{"id":417247,"date":"2025-12-01T13:13:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417247\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T13:13:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:13:12","slug":"new-york-to-tighten-driver-point-system-starting-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417247\/","title":{"rendered":"New York to tighten driver point system starting February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers across New York will soon face stricter penalties under a new point system taking effect in February, according to the Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Licenses will be suspended after 10 points within 24 months, compared to the current 11 points in 18 months. <\/p>\n<p>Officials say this means minor violations could quickly add up under the new rules.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers will now get points for broken tail lights, illegal U-turns, obstructing traffic and not moving for emergency vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be increased points for speeding, using a phone while driving and failing to yield to pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p>The new system begins Feb. 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers across New York will soon face stricter penalties under a new point system taking effect in February,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":417248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,195481,151366,195480,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,109596,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-417247","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-distracted-driving","10":"tag-drivers-license","11":"tag-driving-rules","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-reckless-driving","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115644491708901560","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}