Young children usually are covered by child safety seat laws, while
safety belt laws cover older children and adults.
Young children usually are covered by child safety seat laws,
while safety belt laws cover older children and adults.
Ideally, all infants and children in all motor vehicles should be covered
by safety belt laws, child safety seat laws or both.
A newly enacted
primary safety belt law, along with stepped - up enforcement, has pushed Washington's belt use rate up to 93 percent.
When states enact primary enforcement
of safety belt laws, death rates decline 7 percent, Institute researchers find.
The implementation of the first
state safety belt laws, air bags in cars, and a national legal drinking age in 1984
An article claiming that Britain's
safety belt law didn't save lives is the latest instance of this idea being applied incorrectly.
Texas» «Click It or Ticket» campaign is intended to increase public awareness of
Texas safety belt laws and reduce injuries and fatalities that result when drivers and passengers choose not to buckle up.
Primary safety belt laws, graduated driver licensing for beginning teen drivers and alcohol interlocks for first - time offenders are additional strategies proven to save lives and reduce crashes.
Lawmakers have eliminated most of these gaps by amending their child safety seat and
safety belt laws; still, 15 - year - olds riding in the rear seat in Arkansas, Alabama and Ohio, and children age 9 or older who are not taller than 4 feet 9 inches riding in the rear seat in Oklahoma are covered by neither law.
Lawmakers are eliminating these gaps by amending child safety seat and
safety belt laws.
Florida's
safety belt law was first introduced in 1986, but back then officers could only cite drivers for seat belt violations if they stopped them initially for other violations.
You can learn more about
the safety belt laws, and safe driving in general, from an online defensive driving course.