{"id":41656,"date":"2022-10-04T16:04:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T20:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=41656"},"modified":"2023-09-24T16:27:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T20:27:36","slug":"warning-street-racing-in-gwinnett-county-could-leave-you-with-no-wheels-for-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=41656","title":{"rendered":"Warning: Street racing in Gwinnett County could leave you with no wheels for a month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"\/tag\/Gwinnett-County\">Gwinnett County<\/a> is putting <a href=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/2022\/05\/02\/photos-80-arrested-for-street-racing-in-gwinnett\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"35038\">street racers<\/a> on notice that they aren&#8217;t welcome on the county&#8217;s roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>County leaders on Tuesday approved a new ordinance that will make it more difficult to drag race\u00a0on Gwinnett County streets.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ordinance allows Gwinnett Police to impound vehicles involved in street racing for up to a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>State law does not address impounding\u00a0\u2013 only fines. The county\u2019s action is on the heels of cities like <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"\/city\/Atlanta\"   title=\"Atlanta\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Atlanta<\/a> and Sandy Springs passing similar ordinances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In May, Gwinnett Police along with other local police departments made more than 80 arrests on Peachtree Corners Circle and Spalding&nbsp;Drive, leading to at least two dozen impounds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To crack down on this nationwide problem locally, law enforcement officers use several resources to track down drag racing drivers\u00a0\u2014 including the use of intersection cameras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=8]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gwinnett County is putting street racers on notice that they aren&#8217;t welcome on the county&#8217;s roads. County leaders on Tuesday approved a new ordinance that will make it more difficult to drag race\u00a0on Gwinnett County streets.\u00a0 The ordinance allows Gwinnett Police to impound vehicles involved in street racing for up to a month. State law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8498,8869],"class_list":["post-41656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-gwinnett-county","tag-street-racing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}