Sentences with phrase «state safety belt laws»

The implementation of the first state safety belt laws, air bags in cars, and a national legal drinking age in 1984

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GHSA's website provides information on child passenger safety laws including helpful charts for all 50 states and their individual laws on when to use a child restraint or passenger seat, and when it is permissible to transition into an adult safety belt.

When states enact primary enforcement of safety belt laws, death rates decline 7 percent, Institute researchers find.

It describes key events of the 1970s (the U.S. regulatory war over airbags, occupant protection outside the United states, the advent of automatic seat belts); discusses what happened in the 1980s (the need for both seat belts and airbags, the continuation of the air bag war, U.S. seat belt use laws, how the marketplace took over) and presents concerns during the 1990s (airbag - induced deaths, and the convergence of the safety world).

Safety belt use laws in only 21 states and the District of Columbia are primary, meaning police may stop vehicles solely for belt law violations.

Unfortunately, while new safety regulations such as mandatory seat - belt laws and installed technological innovations such as airbags seem to consistently help drivers and passengers to survive more accidents, the dismal numbers relating to large truck accident fatalities are unlikely to improve significantly in the near future, either in Illinois or in the United States as a whole.

Even since the inception of seat belt laws, enforcing proper seat belt safety has been a serious issue in the United States.

Florida traffic law clearly states that all passengers in the front seats must wear their safety belts at all times.