{"id":481778,"date":"2026-10-01T17:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/481778\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T17:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:12:07","slug":"enforce-laws-against-texting-while-driving-not-just-drunken-driving-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/481778\/","title":{"rendered":"Enforce laws against texting while driving, not just drunken driving \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cNew California laws target drunken drivers\u201d (Sept. 26): How about enforcing the law against texting while driving? When I ride my motorcycle and I see a car over the double yellow line headed right at me, the person attempting to drive is always not looking at the road but at a cell phone. At least a drunken driver is looking at the road. They may see two of me, but at least they see me.<\/p>\n<p>The penalty for texting while driving is merely a slap on the wrist compared to a DUI. Why? We put our lives in the hands of other drivers. Why gamble on those who are not even looking at where their car\/truck is going?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Allen Stanko, Alpine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cNew California laws target drunken drivers\u201d (Sept. 26): How about enforcing the law against texting while driving?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-481778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481778","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=481778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}