{"id":121584,"date":"2023-04-04T11:54:32","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T15:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=121584"},"modified":"2023-04-04T11:54:35","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T15:54:35","slug":"madison-county-sheriff-u-drive-u-text-u-pay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=121584","title":{"rendered":"Madison County Sheriff: \u2018U Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Madison County Sheriff: \u2018U Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Madison County Sheriff\u2019s Office reminds motorists that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is promoting a distracted-driving awareness enforcement initiative April 3 through April 10, 2023.&nbsp;Distracted-driving is the leading cause of motor vehicle crashes nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MCSO will participate in the nationwide effort to reduce distracted driving crashes that often result in needless death and injury.&nbsp;To help reduce the number of overall crashes in Madison County and promote voluntary compliance with the law, the Sheriff\u2019s Office will be deploying dedicated traffic-enforcement patrols during this enforcement period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dedicated traffic-enforcement patrols will be targeting motorists who commit handheld device violations in addition to other observed violations commonly associated with distracted driving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grant money obtained from the Governor\u2019s Traffic Safety Committee fund the dedicated traffic patrols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Madison County Sheriff\u2019s Office encourages motorists to focus their attention on driving to help keep themselves and members of our community safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison County Sheriff: \u2018U Drive. U Text. U Pay.\u2019 The Madison County Sheriff\u2019s Office reminds motorists that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is promoting a distracted-driving awareness enforcement initiative April 3 through April 10, 2023.&nbsp;Distracted-driving is the leading cause of motor vehicle crashes nationwide. The MCSO will participate in the nationwide effort to reduce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-vD2","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Madison-County-Sheriff-Badge.png?fit=310%2C338&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}