Oregon State Legislature --
A bill sponsored by Representative MACPHERSON, Senator DEVLIN;
Representative GELSER, Senator MONROE, would require children under the age of 13 to sit in the rear of a motor vehicle. This is an addition to the current law that requires persons under eight years of age or under certain heights (4'9") to use safety systems such as child seats within a motor vehicle. children who are under one year of age are required use rear facing child safety systems.
It is suggested that requiring children under 13 to ride in the backseat will reduce the number of children killed in motor vehicle accidents.
Failure to comply with a new law would be considered child endangerment and is a class D traffic violation
I guess technically, under the law, anyone who is under 4'9" is required to use a child safety seat regardless of age.
Just wait; next, they will require everybody in a motor vehicle under a certain age to wear a helmet because helmets have been proven to reduce injuries.
3 comments:
It has been confirmed that nearly all motor vehicle accidents are caused by the movement of the vehicles. Therefore I suggest that anyone operating a motor vehicle must not be allowed to move said vehicle. Problem solved.
I would disagree with that. Although the solution would be simple, it would depend on where the said vehicle is located. Based on the theory that most accidents happen in the home and in the bathroom, which ergo constitutes a fixed nonmovable location, would then prove that a stationary vehicle could be considered highly dangerous and avoided at all cost, therefore providing more evidence that all vehicles should be banned and replaced by mass transportation...
however, that could prove to not be a very feasible solution due to the possible risk to injury, because mass transportation and/or alternative transportation both would fall under the first rule of "a moving vehicle" and therefore must also be banned and then immediately eliminated under the second rule, that a stationary vehicle is more dangerous than the bathroom.
Move to New Hampshire where they have no helmet law. Their motto is 'live free or die'.
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