Colorado Starts Ticketing Booster Seat Violators on August 1
Colorado Springs, CO
The one-year education period for booster seat violations will expire in Colorado on August 1, 2011. The new law, enacted on August 1, 2010, requires all children under age 8 to use a child safety seat when traveling in a motor vehicle. Children ages 6- to 7 are now required to use booster seats. Previously, the law required only 4 and 5-year-olds to be in booster seats.The minimum fine per violation is $82 for each child that is not restrained.
Children ages 4–7 who use booster seats are 45% less likely to be injured in a crash compared with children who are restrained only by seat belts. In Colorado, from 2004–2008, 28 children ages 4–7 were killed in traffic crashes. Twenty of them were improperly restrained, totally unrestrained or using only the vehicle seat belt (which does not provide adequate protection).
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