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Delaware Child Passenger Safety Law

  • Through 6 yrs or 60 lbs, whichever comes first, required to be properly restrained in CSS meeting Federal safety standards.
  • Over age 7 or 60 lbs must wear a fastened seat belt.
    -Above is Primary offense
  • Under 12 and 65 inches or less, not in the front seat that is equipped with operable passenger air bag.
    -Exceptions: No rear seat. All rear seats occupied by other children less than 12 and less than 65 inches
    This section secondary offense
  • Fine --> no more than $25.00

Safety Belt Facts

• Wearing a Safety belt decreases the risk of being killed or seriously injured by 50%.

•  In 2001, motor vehicle fatalities and injuries occurred nearly twice as often as murders and violent crimes in Delaware.

•  In 2002, 100 Delaware vehicle occupants were killed, 64% were not wearing seatbelts.

•  Seatbelts protect families. In Delaware, when parents are buckled up, 90% of the time children are too. When adults do not wear seatbelts, child restraint use drops to just 59%.

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