{"id":14844,"date":"2013-12-26T02:44:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T10:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14844"},"modified":"2013-12-26T02:44:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T10:44:07","slug":"2014-dmv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/2014-dmv\/","title":{"rendered":"New Rules for the Road 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/santant.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hollywood Park Race Track <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/history\/hollywood-park.html\">closed permanently<\/a> four days ago while season opener at Santa Anita Race Track in Arcadia, Calif. began on Dec. 26, 2013 with a free calendar give-away. The race is on! Meanwhile, on the road the CHP has beefed up its holiday enforcement on California&#8217;s Highways.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New driving laws in 2014:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Drivers under age 18 can&#8217;t use cell phones while driving&#8211;hands-free devices are prohibited, too.<br \/>\n2. Starting in September drivers must allow 3 feet when passing a cyclist&#8211;it&#8217;s the law.<br \/>\n3. \u00a0Child abduction by a parent with custody becomes part of the\u00a0Amber Alert system.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-new-years-drunk-driving-data\/\">California Drunk Driving Statistics<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">18-year-olds are at highest risk<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0for fatal crash involvements, and teenaged drivers are the largest age category.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Alcohol and drugs are the top cause of fatal accidents, with unsafe speed the #1 factor .<\/li>\n<li>Teenagers have highest arrests for hit &amp; run.<\/li>\n<li>Hit and run declines steeply with age. At age 60, as with DUI, hit &amp; run arrest of drivers age 60 or more is close to zero.<\/li>\n<li>The highest &#8220;had been drinking&#8221; fatal crashes are in ages 20-24; the lowest are in age 85 and older.<\/li>\n<li>Age 16-19 men &#8220;had been drinking&#8221; fatal crashes are five times higher than girls\/women the same age.<\/li>\n<li>73.1% DUI arrest resulted in convictions that remain<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0on record for 10 years.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Approx. 5% of all California drivers have a DUI conviction on their record.<\/li>\n<li>It usually take 87 days from arrest to conviction and 8 day from conviction to update in DMV database.<\/li>\n<li>The main Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) of those convicted is .16, twice the legal limit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood Park Race Track closed permanently four days ago while season opener at Santa Anita Race Track in Arcadia, Calif. began on Dec. 26, 2013 with a free calendar give-away. The race is on! Meanwhile, on the road the CHP has beefed up its holiday enforcement on California&#8217;s Highways. New driving laws in 2014: 1. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}