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The National Highway Traffic Safety Primary Versus Secondary Seat Belt Laws: Administration is responsible for reducing motor (Primary) seat belt enforcement means that a vehicle-related fatalities and injuries on our law enforcement officer has the authority to Nation's highways. Research has shown that issue a citation for a failure to wear a seat belt effective State and local traffic safety laws play based solely on probable cause of such violation. an important role in helping to reduce motor Note: Primary seat belt laws are sometimes vehicle crashes. For example, in 2010, States referred to as standard laws. (Secondary) with primary seat belt laws had a 12 percent higher enforcement means that such officers are only belt use rate on average compared to States authorized to enforce a violation of the seat belt without primary seat belt laws. use law after they have first stopped a driver for some other violation of the law. This publication provides a summary chart of the key provisions of State occupant protection A National Occupant Protection Use Survey laws and detailed lists of these laws in every (NOPUS), conducted in June 2010, found that State. Such laws include requiring the use of (1) the average seat belt use rates in States with seat belts, (2) child passenger restraint devices, primary enforcement laws were 12 percentage and (3) motorcycle or bicycle helmets. Also points higher than in States without primary included are laws concerning age restrictions for enforcement laws. (On average, seat belt use motorcycle passengers and laws that prohibit was 88 percent in primary law States versus 76 percent in riding in the bed of a pickup truck. Except as States without primary enforcement.) noted, the status of the State laws reported is as of May 1, 2011. |