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November 30, 2006
STATE LOSING CHILD RESTRAINT FUNDS OVER LAW’S WORDING
According to an article in the Greensboro, NC News-Record, the Federal government “has denied the state roughly $1 million in money for child-passenger safety programs, citing loose wording in the state law requiring kids to be buckled securely in a suitable protective seat.” NHTSA “denied the state's application for next year's grant because state law says infants and small children don't have to be in a protective seat ‘when the child's personal needs are being attended to.’”
The feds “felt that wording was too vague, allowing a negligent parent to get by with an unacceptably wide range of excuses for not doing the right thing and buckling the kids securely in child-safe seats.”
The federal money “also pays for educational materials and trains technicians who teach parents how to use the seats. But its most visible role is distributing seats to lower-income people, sometimes at events where parents can learn about child-passenger safety from trained technicians...”
Posted by MVHAP at November 30, 2006 06:28 PM