{"id":93372,"date":"2019-06-19T17:43:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T17:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/statewide-seat-belt-enforcement-begins\/"},"modified":"2019-06-19T17:43:38","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T17:43:38","slug":"statewide-seat-belt-enforcement-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/statewide-seat-belt-enforcement-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Statewide seat belt enforcement begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=e30fa185-7c6c-4f42-89e3-117d330dc66c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"853\" height=\"569\" alt=\"Click it or Ticket seat belt enforcement period will run from June 15 to July 21.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Click it or Ticket seat belt enforcement period will run from June 15 to July 21.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">cfarnsworth\/Pixabay<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Click It or Ticket has returned for an enforcement period targeting rural areas of Colorado beginning now through July 21.<\/p>\n<p>Fines for not buckling up start at $65, and drivers caught with an improperly restrained child can receive a minimum fine of $82.<\/p>\n<p>Under Colorado law, drivers can be ticketed for violating the seat belt law if they are stopped for another traffic violation.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado\u2019s Graduated Drivers Licensing law requires all drivers younger than 18 and their passengers, regardless of their age, to wear seat belts. This is a primary enforcement, meaning teens can be pulled over simply for not wearing a seat belt or having passengers without seat belts.<\/p>\n<p>For children, Colorado\u2019s Child Passenger Safety law is a primary enforcement law. Under it a driver can be stopped and ticketed if an officer sees an unrestrained or improperly restrained child younger than 16 in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codot.gov\/safety\/seatbelts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.codot.gov\/safety\/seatbelts-carseats<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it or Ticket seat belt enforcement period will run from June 15 to July 21.cfarnsworth\/Pixabay Click It or Ticket has returned for an enforcement period targeting rural areas of Colorado beginning now through July 21. Fines for not buckling up start at $65, and drivers caught with an improperly restrained child can receive a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5749,5736,5735],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-93372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","category-local-news","category-news","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93372","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=93372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93372"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=93372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}