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All children who are smaller than 145 cm (4 ft 9 in) and younger than 7 years old must use a booster or car seat appropriate to their weight. A child must use a car seat at ages 0–4; Ages 5–7 a booster is required. Children under 10 years old are required to ride in the back seat.
Placing children in appropriate car seats and booster seats reduces serious and fatal injuries by more than half. [6] All infants and toddlers should ride in a rear-facing seat until they are at least of two years of age. [7] All 50 states require child seats with specific criteria. Requirements vary based on a child's age, weight and height. [8]
If the child is 3 years old or younger, the car seat must be “a separate carrier” or “integrated child seat.” If children are 4 or 5 years old, then they can also use a booster seat.
Most seat belt laws in the United States are left to state law. However, the recommended age for a child to sit in the front passenger seat is 13. The first seat belt law was a federal law, Title 49 of the United States Code, Chapter 301, Motor Safety Standard, which took effect on January 1, 1968, that required all vehicles (except buses) to be fitted with seat belts in all designated seating ...
Anti-submarine seating is a safety feature that may be more important for the front seats than the rear seats. [8] A child safety seat or child restraint system is a restraint which is secured to the seat of an automobile equipped with safety harnesses or seat belts, to hold a child in the event of a crash. All 50 states require child seats ...
80, seats of large passenger vehicles and of these vehicles with regard to the strength of the seats and their anchorages 81, rear-view mirrors of two-wheeled power-driven vehicles 85, internal combustion engines or electric drive trains intended for the propulsion of motor vehicles of categories M and N with regard to the measurement of the ...
Seats are secured with a single attachment at the top (top tether) and two attachments at the base of each side of the seat. The full set of anchor points for this system were required in new cars in the United States starting in September 2002. In the EU the system is known as Isofix and covers both Group 0/0+ and Group 1 child safety seats ...
Vermont’s child passenger safety program, BeSeatSmart, aims to increase and sustain safety seat and seat belt use for children 0–18. This is done through annual training of new technicians, yearly training of existing technicians, creating and supporting fitting stations, holding open-to-the-public inspections, a telephone hot-line for all things CPS (Child Passenger Safety) related, a ...