{"id":280443,"date":"2026-04-22T16:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280443\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:05:51","slug":"drivers-urged-to-focus-on-the-road-during-national-distracted-driving-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/280443\/","title":{"rendered":"Drivers urged to focus on the road during National Distracted Driving Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Distracted driving is one of the leading causes of preventable crashes across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Whether a driver is texting, adjusting navigation or just multi-tasking, taking focus off of the road for just a moment can have life-altering consequences.<\/p>\n<p>This National Distracted Driving Awareness Month it&#8217;s important to take responsibility and help makes roads safer for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>David Reich with the National Road Safety Foundation joined ARC Bakersfield to share more details on the dangers of being distracted behind the wheel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Distracted driving is one of the leading causes of preventable crashes across the country.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-280443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}