{"id":72464,"date":"2017-06-06T21:19:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T03:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-toughens-penalties-for-texting-while-driving\/"},"modified":"2017-06-07T03:19:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T03:19:55","slug":"colorado-toughens-penalties-for-texting-while-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-toughens-penalties-for-texting-while-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado toughens penalties for texting while driving"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Drivers also will get four points on their license instead of one point per violation under a bill signed into law Thursday by Gov. John Hickenlooper.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by Democratic Sen. Lois Court, the measure comes after a woman who was driving drunk and texting on her phone hit and killed a Parker couple riding a motorcycle near Franktown last year.<\/p>\n<p>Athina Munoz pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and was sentenced in January to 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Motorcyclists organized after the deaths of Brian and Jacquie Lehner to lobby for the tougher fines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers also will get four points on their license instead of one point per violation under a bill signed into law Thursday by Gov. John Hickenlooper. Sponsored by Democratic Sen. Lois Court, the measure comes after a woman who was driving drunk and texting on her phone hit and killed a Parker couple riding a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-72464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72464"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=72464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}