{"id":434658,"date":"2025-12-09T03:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/434658\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T03:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:04:18","slug":"drivers-will-face-harsher-penalties-for-breaking-these-traffic-laws-in-2026-see-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/434658\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers Will Face Harsher Penalties For Breaking These Traffic Laws In 2026: See List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK CITY \u2014 Beginning next year, New York drivers will face tougher penalties for breaking certain traffic laws. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to the penalties, New York is lowering the amount of points it takes to suspend a driver&#8217;s license. The new rules will go into effect in February 2026\/ <\/p>\n<p>Under current rules, drivers will have their license suspended if they receive 11 points over an 18-month period \u2014 next year it will take 10 points over a two-year period.<\/p>\n<p>Penalties for a number of traffic violations will go up, including: <\/p>\n<p><strong>Speeding up to 10 mph over limit: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>will go from 3 points to 4 points<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Cellphone use behind the wheel:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Increase from 5 to 6 points<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reckless driving:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Currently, 5 points will increase to 8 points. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, certain traffic violations will receive points beginning next year. Driving with broken taillights or blown headlights will get drivers one point each, and taking an illegal U-turn will be a two point violation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY \u2014 Beginning next year, New York drivers will face tougher penalties for breaking certain traffic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":434659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-434658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115687395468289077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434658","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=434658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}