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It should be noted that car seat laws in some states are not nearly as stringent as best practice recommendations issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Even though all states have child restraint laws, they vary from state to state. Meanwhile not using a proper child restraint is unsafe not to mention illegal in all 50 states. When this aired in the UK, the seat belt usage rate for back seat passengers increased astronomically as people finally considered the risk of an unrestrained passenger. If you want a visual of what it looks like, watch this video entitled, “ Like most victims, Julie knew her killer“. In 2013 Think Road Safety in United Kingdom put out some PSA videos showing what happens when a rear passenger doesn’t wear the seat belt. 18 states do not include adult passengers in the rear seat in the state’s seat belt law. However, only 31 states require all passengers to properly buckle in all seats. Over the next 11 years all other states, except for New Hampshire, adopted seat belt laws. Seat belt use first became mandatory in the state of New York. While seat belts were mandatory to be installed in cars in 1968, it wasn’t until 1984 that states started adopting laws that required using seat belts.
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