I just got a $400 ticket because my 1st grader was not in a car seat (he was belted in, in the back seat).
I’m in CA and I didn’t realize the law had changed in between my 3rd and 4th children. It’s now age 6 or 60 lbs.
Since I got the ticket I read there is no difference in death rates from accidents of a 5 yr old who are belted in with no booster vs. belted in with a booster.
I hate the nanny state!
They want to own you.
I want my child in the front seat with me. I hate when she’s back there. There’s been times when she’s hurt herself and I had to recklessly pull over to help her. Sometimes she wants something and I can’t see what’s going on. I will never believe that children are safer under that condition that they make us drive.
I’m happy to keep her up front, even in that awful booster seat although I don’t see how that helps. Obviously she’d be belted in. But forcing me to put her in the back seat makes no sense.