{"id":57018,"date":"2025-12-01T12:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57018\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T12:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:43:06","slug":"new-york-to-tighten-driver-point-system-starting-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/57018\/","title":{"rendered":"New York to tighten driver point system starting February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers across New York will soon face stricter penalties under a new point system taking effect in February, according to the Orange County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Licenses will be suspended after 10 points within 24 months, compared to the current 11 points in 18 months. <\/p>\n<p>Officials say this means minor violations could quickly add up under the new rules.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers will now get points for broken tail lights, illegal U-turns, obstructing traffic and not moving for emergency vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be increased points for speeding, using a phone while driving and failing to yield to pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p>The new system begins Feb. 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers across New York will soon face stricter penalties under a new point system taking effect in February,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[30821,3409,30820,9,24,63,122,124,123,10024],"class_list":["post-57018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-distracted-driving","tag-drivers-license","tag-driving-rules","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-reckless-driving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}