(2)
Require seat belt use: Although your teen may buckle up when you're in the car, don't assume seat belts will be used all of the time, especially when your child is out with peers.
Not exact matches
Since the convertible
seat is
used in both rear - facing and front - facing positions and since some parents choose not to purchase an infant
seat, only two or three
seats should be
required to accommodate a child from birth until he or she is old enough to wear regular
seat belts.
Child safety
seat laws
require children to travel in approved child restraints or booster
seats and some permit or
require older children to
use adult safety
belts.
The child can stop
using the booster
seat once he reaches the
required height and can fit into a
seat belt without needing a booster
seat.
It is
required by law to
use a booster
seat until the adult
seat belt fits properly.
Booster
seats require the
use of your vehicle's
seat belts as opposed to the internal five - point harness found in convertible or infant
seats.
There exists a system in some newer cars that does not
require the
use of a
seat belt to fashion the car
seat to it.
When
using a booster
seat with a
seat belt, more room is
required to buckle the
seat belt in.
AAA's Northeast chapter is pushing a bill that would
require all passengers to
use a
seat belt while in a moving vehicle, regardless of their age and where they are
seated.
A rear - facing child restraint system that
uses a
seat belt is very easy to install, and
requires just a few steps: 1.
They are not suitable for smaller children who
require a child
seat where the adult
belt is not
used directly to restrain the child.
Forty - nine states and the District of Columbia
require drivers and passengers to
use seat belts, and a driver in Texas who does not wear a
seat belt can be fined $ 200.
Plaintiffs argued that evidence of failure to
use a
seat belt should be excluded because that conduct could not have caused the accident, and a plaintiff should not be
required to anticipate negligent conduct by the defendant; the Court rejected that argument based largely on the language of the proportionate responsibility statute, which focuses on the various parties» roles in causing «the personal injury» or the «harm for which recovery of damages is sought,» rather than simply the occurrence that led to the injury.
Recounting the context and history of the prohibition on
seat -
belt evidence, the Court also noted other changes that augured in favor of its new approach: For example, back in the days of Kerby and Carnation,
seat belts were in their infancy and neither federal nor state law
required their
use.
The Court similarly explained that failure - to - mitigate is not an appropriate vehicle for considering a plaintiff's failure to
use a
seat belt, because that doctrine is predicated on a plaintiff's post-occurrence conduct; failure to fasten a
seat belt, as
required, occurs pre-event and is therefore better included in the overall proportionate responsibility calculation.
To reduce the risk that you or a loved one will
require an amputation, it is crucial to
use recommended safety equipment, such as a helmet when riding a bicycle or motorcycle, a
seat belt in any moving vehicle, and protective gear when
using power tools or working on a factory or farm.
(i) A judge, acting under Article 45.0511, Code of Criminal Procedure, who elects to defer further proceedings and to place a defendant accused of a violation of Subsection (b) on probation under that article, in lieu of
requiring the defendant to complete a driving safety course approved by the Texas Education Agency, shall
require the defendant to attend and present proof that the defendant has successfully completed a specialized driving safety course approved by the Texas Education Agency under the Texas Driver and Traffic Safety Education Act (Article 4413 (29c), Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes) that includes four hours of instruction that encourages the
use of child passenger safety
seat systems and the wearing of
seat belts and emphasizes:
(g) A judge, acting under Article 45.0511, Criminal Procedure Code, who elects to defer further proceedings and to place a defendant accused of a violation of this section on probation under that article, in lieu of
requiring the defendant to complete a driving safety course approved by the Texas Education Agency, shall
require the defendant to attend and present proof that the defendant has successfully completed a specialized driving safety course approved by the Texas Education Agency under the Texas Driver and Traffic Safety Education Act that includes four hours of instruction that encourages the
use of child passenger safety
seat systems and the wearing of
seat belts...
Aside from over speeding, traffic management also imposed a code that
requires the
use of
seat belt.