{"id":89909,"date":"2018-04-12T14:58:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T18:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89909"},"modified":"2018-04-12T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T16:00:57","slug":"madison-county-sheriffs-office-u-drive-u-text-u-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89909","title":{"rendered":"Madison County Sheriff&#8217;s Office: U drive, U text, U pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-41578\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mad-Co-Sheriffs-Dept.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mad-Co-Sheriffs-Dept.jpg 221w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Mad-Co-Sheriffs-Dept-124x150.jpg 124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/>Madison County Sheriff&#8217;s Office: U drive, U text, U pay<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Madison County Sheriff\u2019s Office would like to remind\u00a0motorists that April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Distracted\u00a0driving is one of the leading causes of motor vehicle crashes nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Madison County Sheriff\u2019s Office will participate in the nationwide effort to reduce distracted driving crashes that often result in needless death and injury.<\/p>\n<p>In order to\u00a0help reduce the number of overall crashes in Madison County and promote voluntary\u00a0compliance with the law, the Sheriff\u2019s Office will be deploying dedicated traffic\u00a0enforcement patrols.<\/p>\n<p>The dedicated traffic enforcement patrols will be targeting motorists who commit cell\u00a0phone use\/texting violations in addition to other observed violations commonly\u00a0associated with distracted driving. Grant monies obtained from the Governor\u2019s\u00a0Traffic Safety Committee fund the dedicated traffic patrols.<\/p>\n<p>The Madison County Sheriff\u2019s Office is encouraging motorists to focus their attention\u00a0on driving to help keep themselves and members of our community safe.<\/p>\n<p>Remember: U Drive. U Text. U Pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison County Sheriff&#8217;s Office: U drive, U text, U pay The Madison County Sheriff\u2019s Office would like to remind\u00a0motorists that April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Distracted\u00a0driving is one of the leading causes of motor vehicle crashes nationwide. The\u00a0Madison County Sheriff\u2019s Office will participate in the nationwide effort to reduce distracted driving crashes that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89909","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=89909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}