Posted on 01/02/2012 8:55:31 PM PST by grundle
California, which has more drivers than any other state, has raised its cutoff age for car seats to 8.
The new law took effect Sunday, with stiff fines for parents who don't comply.
Children must be buckled into booster seats in vehicles until they turn 8 or grow to a height of 4-foot-9, under SB929 by Sen. Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa.
That's two more years than under the previous law, which required the restraints until children turned 6 or reached 60 pounds.
Eventually adults will have to ride in booster/car seats.
California Raises Booster Seat Age To 58
Gotta love that Nanny State! Where would we be without politicians telling us how to live.
No kidding. You can drive with an adult at 15 1/2 years in CA.
No kidding, I see booster seats for small elderly women in Kalifornia’s future.
gosh
I grew up with no seatbelts and no booster seats...except when I was 15 I sat on a phonebook...to DRIVE!
I’m sick of these stupid laws.
Nahh, we’ll send those to Miami...
I wonder which booster seat manufacturers supported this when it was a bill and how much $$$$ they contributed to politicians?
I propose a law that all lawmakers must wear straight jackets while in session.
Oh yeah, muzzles too.
When I was a kid our car had no seat belts and the friggin dash came to a point and was made of painted sheet metal! There you sat, just staring at that instrument of death :-)
The first car we got that actually had seat belts the first thing my dad did was cut them off since they were just always in the way.
I remember that on vacation I would curl up and sleep on the rear dash board (those old Buicks were HUGE)...lol I wonder how far you could drive like that now before getting ticketed.
But if it is an illegal alien, do the poiice have to let them find someone with a car seat?
Surprised they didn’t lower the age of consent to 8 at the same time...
Yeah, but the new law SB942, if implemented, will include all children under 4’11” tall, to use children’s booster seats, while the vehicle is being operated.
Other laws being considered are the use of bicycle type helmets for CA licensed permit holders, and all those within their first 18 months of driving.
I didn’t weigh 60# until I was in 6th grade.Yikes it would be embarrassing to have to stay in a seat that long!
Exactly what I was thinking
I think there will be a challenge to this idiot law. I don’t believe they have the data to back up whether this improves safety at all.
I think you must be right about car seat manufacturers pushing this law.
My kids are long since grown, but how in the heck does one carpool kindergarteners, and first through third graders to school, take a carload of kids on a school field trip, or pick up the neighborhood kids from baseball or soccer practice? It would make it very inconvenient to even pick up your child and his/her friend from school.
Were traffic deaths from this age group especially high? The two children I knew who were killed in traffic accidents were in car seats at the time.
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