{"id":10695,"date":"2021-06-24T21:57:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T21:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=10695"},"modified":"2021-06-24T21:57:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T21:57:24","slug":"florida-drivers-urged-to-cut-distractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/florida-drivers-urged-to-cut-distractions\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida drivers urged to cut distractions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), along with its highway safety partners statewide, is urging drivers to cut out distractions while driving this summer.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020 there were more than 48,500 crashes in Florida caused by drivers who had diverted their attention. FDOT will be educating drivers on distracted driving prevention during this year\u2019s peak summer travel months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2020, we saw far too many crashes in Florida caused by careless, dangerous, and selfish driving behavior that resulted in hundreds of fatalities,\u201d said Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Executive Director Terry L. Rhodes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you drive this summer, respect your safety, respect the safety of your passengers, and respect the safety of other road users by eliminating all distractions and focusing on driving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FDOT offers the following tips to avoid distracted driving:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Plan your trip before you hit the road to remove the need to adjust or program your GPS while driving<\/li>\n<li>If you need to eat or drink pull over to circumvent the need to remove your hands from the wheel<\/li>\n<li>Put your phone away<\/li>\n<li>Stay focused<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FDOT\u2019s Distracted Driving webpage has more information and resources at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fdot.gov\/agencyresources\/distracteddriving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.fdot.gov\/agencyresources\/distracteddriving<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), along with its highway safety partners statewide, is urging drivers to cut out distractions while driving this summer. In 2020 there were more than 48,500 crashes in Florida caused by drivers who had diverted their attention. FDOT will be educating drivers on distracted driving prevention during this year\u2019s peak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":10696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10695","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\/10695","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=10695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}