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Chesterfield Police to Aggressively Enforce Child Seat Belt Laws
This week, Chesterfield Police will be out making sure parents with children in their car are using seat belts properly.
Chesterfield Police recently announced it will be joining other St. Louis County police departments in what they are calling an “aggressive Child Passenger Safety Week” campaign.
Missouri law requires all children under the age of eight to be in an
appropriate child safety seat or booster seat unless they are 80 pounds or 4’9” tall.
Chesterfield Police Chief Ray Johnson said in a release the aim of the enforcement program, which will run Sept. 16- 22, is to crackdown on Missouri’s child safety seat law violators and to reduce highway fatalities and injuries to children. Johnson also said in the release that regular child safety seat and safety belt use is the single most effective way to protect people and reduce fatalities in motor vehicle crashes.
Car crashes are the number one killer of kids and nearly 73 percent of all child restraints are
not used correctly, according to the Chesterfield Police announcement.
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