Sentences with phrase «seat restraint ages»

In the last four decades, laws throughout the United States have steadily increased mandatory safety seat restraint ages.

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Children through age 15 must wear a seat belt or be secured in an appropriate child restraint system.

2 Nevada law states that children must ride in appropriate child restraints until 6 years of age and 60 lbs.; however, children won't fit the vehicle seat belt correctly to not suffer injury in a crash until the above 5 - step test is passed, which happens around ages 9 - 11.

Children under age four should be properly secured in a child restraint that is secured to the vehicle with a seat belt or LATCH system.

Parents and caretakers are required to secure their child in a car safety seat up until 18 months of age, with some states requiring some form of approved restraint up to age 3.

«Based this new analysis of a decade's worth of data on children involved in crashes, policymakers, pediatricians and health educators should continue to recommend as best practice the use of belt - positioning booster seats once a child outgrows a harnessed based child restraint until he / she is at least 8 years of age,» says Dennis Durbin, MD, MSCE, co-scientific director of The Center for Injury Research and Prevention and study co-author.

The goal of this week is to make sure all parents and caregivers are correctly using the right restraint (rear - facing car seat, forward - facing car seat, belt - positioning booster seat or vehicle seat belt) for their children's ages and sizes.

You must factor in the weight and age of your child, your type of vehicle, location of the car seat, and existing restraint systems.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention («CDC») recommends using age - and size - appropriate child restraints (including child safety seats and booster seats) in the back seat until adult seat belts fit properly (i.e., when the lap belt lays across the upper thighs, not the stomach; and the shoulder belt lays across the shoulder and chest, not the neck or face), which normally occurs after a child is at least age 8 years or ≥ 57 inches (145 cm) tall.

Use of the age - appropriate restraints such as a car safety seat or a booster seat greatly reduces the risk of serious injury and death to your children in a motor vehicle accident.»

Booster seats have been shown to reduce the risk of serious injury by 45 percent in children aged 4 - 8 when compared with seat belt use alone but there are reportedly lower rates of proper restraint use among older kids.

The findings, which appear in this month's issue of The Journal of Trauma, also show that roughly a third of booster seat - age children who did have seats checked left an inspection in a safer restraint than when they arrived.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today unveiled two new National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that estimate that seat belts saved more than 72,000 lives during the five years between 2005 and 2009, while child restraint systems and minimum drinking age laws saved hundreds more during 2009.

Always use safety belts and seat children only in the rear, using restraint systems appropriate for their size and age.

Air bags, seat - mounted side - impact, driver and right - front passenger for thorax and pelvic protection (Always use safety belts and the correct child restraints for your child's age and size, even in vehicles equipped with air bags.

Always use safety belts and seat children only in the rear seats, using restraint systems appropriate for their size and age.

Infants and toddlers: All children should ride rear - facing in back seats until they are 2 years of age or until they reach the height or weight limit of their child restraints.

All 50 states and the District of Columbia have child safety seat laws requiring children under a certain age to travel in federally approved child restraint devices.

According to NHTSA, safety restraints for children, such as car seats, are advisable for any child within that age range.

A child under the age of 4 years and 40 pounds shall be secured as described in (a) until they reach the upper limits of the rear - facing seat, then in a forward - facing child restraint equipped with a 5 - point harness.

It is unlawful for any person to operate a vehicle in this state unless every passenger of the vehicle under the age of 18 is restrained by a safety belt or by a child restraint device, regardless of seating position.

All children age 3 and under must at all times be securely fastened into a federally - approved child restraint seat.

The old law stated that people over the age of seventeen didn't have to wear them in the back seat, but now everyone is required to use a passenger restraint unless they drive or ride in a moving vehicle that does not have them, such as a bus or an older model car.

Before September 2009, there was an exception for people over the age of seventeen riding in the back seat, but now everyone is required to use a passenger restraint unless they drive or ride in a moving vehicle that does not have them, such as a bus or an older model car.