Coverage gaps in child-restraint and seat-belt laws affecting children

✍ Scribed by Michele Fields; Karen Weinberg

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 572 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0001-4575
• DOI: 10.1016/0001-4575(94)90010-8

✦ Synopsis

Although most U.S. states have enacted mandatory-seat-belt-use laws and all states have child-restraint laws requiring children under specified ages to be properly restrained in vehicles, some children are covered by neither law. Other children are covered only by belt-use laws that do not make any adult responsible for their compliance. This note analyzes the child-restraint and belt-use laws in each state and demonstrates the deficiencies in coverage as they apply to children younger than age 16.