{"id":1742,"date":"2025-07-19T20:33:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2025-07-19T20:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T20:33:15","slug":"driving-with-children-in-car-centre-mulls-2x-fine-for-breaking-traffic-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=1742","title":{"rendered":"Driving with children in car? Centre mulls 2x fine for breaking traffic rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The road transport ministry is considering doubling penalties for traffic violations when children are present, aiming to enhance safety and accountability. A &#8220;merit and demerit&#8221; point system is also proposed, linking insurance premiums to driving behavior and potentially suspending licenses for excessive violations. Furthermore, drivers with traffic violations may face mandatory retesting upon license renewal.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The road transport ministry is considering doubling penalties for traffic violations when children are present, aiming to enhance safety and accountability. A &#8220;merit and demerit&#8221; point system is also proposed, <a href=\"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=1742\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}