disagreement with wife: step inside

[stevo]

Not illegal.

If there are 3 kids and 2 seatbelts, one kid can legally ride unrestrained.

Does the unrestrained kid have to be in a seat?

Stevo

[CJ-95GT]

Don't tell her you got your facts frow a car site. Anything you say will lose all merit right or wrong.

[bluecollar]

forget the truck. car seat in passenger seat of corvette FTW.

[78X]

forget the truck. car seat in passenger seat of corvette FTW.

LoL

[jefehbk]

Not illegal.

If there are 3 kids and 2 seat-belts, one kid can legally ride unrestrained.

Ok issues answered....now post pics of said wife as punishment for her not listening to you from the get go.

[78X]

Ok issues answered....now post pics of said wife as punishment for her not listening to you from the get go.

Not his wife but she does give me a boner

do no do this again. - C.J.

[Osiris]

Someone pissed in Kim's Cheerieos yesterday.

[CJ]

Not illegal.

If there are 3 kids and 2 seatbelts, one kid can legally ride unrestrained.

There are 3 seatbelts in that F100 so he would be fine.

[03trubluGT]

Does the unrestrained kid have to be in a seat?

Stevo

I've never read in the traffic code where it says that excess passengers HAVE to be in a seat.

[CJ]

I've never read in the traffic code where it says that excess passengers HAVE to be in a seat.

So they're good in the back of the truck?

[GhostTX]

He had NOTHING to warn me about... which makes him a fucking dickhead prick cop just looking for a reason to stop someone for no valid reason. He pulled me over to specifically ask me the age of my children, then to tell me I was breaking the law by having a 10 year old buckled in the front seat properly.

How is that NOT a dick move? Bah, don't answer that. I can't be swayed on my new found opinions based on personal experience.

Kid needs to be in a booster seat until a 8 OR a certain height now, not based on age alone. This goes for front or back.

TRC § 545.412. CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY SEATSYSTEMS; OFFENSE. (a) A person commits an offense if the person operates a passenger vehicle, transports a child who is younger than eight years of age, unless the child is taller than four feet, nine inches, and does not keep the child secured during the operation of the vehicle in a child passenger safety seat system according to the instructions of the manufacturer of the safety seat system.
...
(e) This section does not apply to a person:
...
(2) transporting a child in a vehicle in which all seat*ing positions equipped with child passenger safety seat systems or safety belts are occupied.

(f) In this section:

(1) "Child passenger safety seat system" means an infant or child passenger restraint system that meets the federal standards for crash-tested restraint systems as set by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
...

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/director_staff/public_information/seatbelt.htm#ChildSafetySeats

Phase 3
Booster Seats
After age 4 and 40+ pounds, children can ride in a booster seat with the adult lap and shoulder belt until the adult safety belt will fit them properly (usually when the child is 4'9" tall).
MUST have a lap/shoulder belt to use a booster seat.

Phase 4
Adult Safety Belt
Once children outgrow their booster seat (usually at 4'9", 100 pounds) they can use the adult safety belt if it fits them properly.
Lap portion low over the hips/tops of thighs and shoulder belt crosses the center of the shoulder and center of the chest.

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/director_staff/public_information/carseat.htm

[stevo]

I've never read in the traffic code where it says that excess passengers HAVE to be in a seat.

Hmm, was curious if I could legally have someone in the back of my postal Jeep, it didn't come with a back seat.

Stevo

[GrayStangGT]

Not illegal.

If there are 3 kids and 2 seatbelts, one kid can legally ride unrestrained.

So lets say if I needed to haul 20 brown people from one side of a fence to another and my van only has 8 seat belts I'm good to go?

[Tannerm]

I've never read in the traffic code where it says that excess passengers HAVE to be in a seat.

Ya, new law. All occupants of a vehicle shall be secured by a seatbelt. That being said, a back passenger with no seatbelt could technically receive a citation. But CJ's right, its got two shoulder lap belts and a middle lap only belt.

[grove rat]

- if you were my wife...i'd take you down a peg or two