Publication Details

The North Carolina seat belt law: Questions commonly asked

Type: Paper

Author(s): UNC Highway Safety Research Center,

Publisher: UNC Highway Safety Research Center

Url: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/16211

Publication Date: Sept-1999

Address: Chapel Hill, NC

Abstract: Who is covered by the law? All drivers and front seat passengers ages sixteen and older are covered by the seat belt law. Children less than age sixteen are covered under the North Carolina Child Passenger Safety (CPS) Law. Revisions to the CPS law are effective as of October 1, 1999. All occupants in ALL seating positions should ride buckled up to help protect all occupants. Unbuckled rear seat occupants can injure buckled up front seat occupants as well as themselves when they are thrown around the car in a crash.