{"id":10437,"date":"2021-02-22T19:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T19:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=10437"},"modified":"2021-03-02T11:22:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T11:22:22","slug":"wa-drug-drivers-to-be-banned-from-road-for-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wa-drug-drivers-to-be-banned-from-road-for-24-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug drivers in Western Australia to be banned from road for 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drug drivers in Western Australia will face an immediate 24-hour driving suspension under new rules.<\/p>\n<p>From February 26 anyone who provides a positive roadside test to an illicit substance or refuses to take a roadside drug test can be immediately suspended from driving. Breaching the 24-hour prohibition notice will result in a $600 infringement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy automatically taking drug drivers off the road for 24 hours, we are removing an immediate risk that may exist for other road users,\u201d said Road Safety Commissioner Adrian Warner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice have always had the power to take someone off the road if they considered that person to be a risk to other drivers, but this new legislation takes a tougher stance and works to the assumption that if you have drugs in your system, you are a risk to the community and will be taken off the road immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 24-hour driving ban is a measure to enhance road safety and will not replace existing drug driving penalties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drug drivers in Western Australia will face an immediate 24-hour driving suspension under new rules. From February 26 anyone who provides a positive roadside test to an illicit substance or refuses to take a roadside drug test can be immediately suspended from driving. Breaching the 24-hour prohibition notice will result in a $600 infringement. \u201cBy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":10438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}