Child Safety Seat Guidelines & Laws - Protect What You Love Most When it comes to your children on the road there is no such thing as being overly cautious. California Highway Patrol Officer, Simeon Yarbrough, shares not only what the laws and guidelines are to keep your family safe but what he does as a father himself to protect his own family while driving. We really want this information to stick and want you to be safe on the roads with your family! So here's the information Officer Yarbrough refers to in the podcast: CHP website: CHP.CA.gov CHP South LA phone: 310-516-3355 Child Passenger Safety Laws & Guidelines Brochure Download ***Transcript*** Recording date – February 4, 2018 Officer Yarbrough: You want that car seat in there snug and you want the child to be in there safe. You don't want to have mirrors back there, anything that can break or anything that can be thrown into the baby. When you're driving, we want your focus on the road. The only thing that ever gets me emotional is kids, babies, teenagers hurt out there in collisions. I've pretty much seen the worst of the worst. I've had to give CPR rescue breathing to kids and babies and teenagers. Those are things that you never forget. So for me, I would tell everybody and implore everybody to make sure your kid is properly restrained no matter what. Tom Smith: Welcome to iDriveSoCal, the podcast all about mobility from the automotive capital of these fine United States of America - Southern California. I'm Tom Smith, and for our regular listeners you know that I'm a new dad. My son is just a few months old, and I'm head over heels. He's kicked my butt. I love him more than anything. And with that in mind, safety is absolutely paramount to the every move that I make. And since I live in Southern California, here in Los Angeles, it is impossible to get around unless you drive. Not impossible, but very, very, very challenging. So with that in mind, we're covering child safety seats in this episode. Something really important to me, keeping my son safe. Something very important to all parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and whatnot. With me today is Officer Simone Yarbrough from the California Highway Patrol. Officer Yarbrough, thank you so much for joining us. Officer Yarbrough: Thank you for having me. I appreciate it, Tom. Tom Smith: I was born in the middle of winter in the Midwest and in the Midwest you have tremendous snow storms. You have the concept of black ice. And I know I wasn't brought home in a four wheel drive vehicle and I know I wasn't brought home in a child safety seat at all. In fact, my mom held me in her arms. Oh, how times have changed. Officer Yarbrough: Definitely. You know I don't remember having a child safety seat when I was younger either. We were probably around the same age so you got to remember that. But I think the first laws came into effect in 1979 in Tennessee. They developed the first child seat laws and then later by 1985 or so I think all states were required to have laws regarding child seats. Tom Smith: And we're here in Southern California. People listen to the podcast all over the place. Are the laws state by state? Officer Yarbrough: Absolutely. So NHTSA governs the laws all over the country, but every state's laws are just a little bit different. So every state has a child seat law. But Missouri and California may be different. Tom Smith: Okay. And NHTSA, National Highway Transportation Safety Administration? Officer Yarbrough: Correct. They regulate safety seats. Tom Smith: So they regulate the seats that we put in our cars but then it's state by state from there how you use those seats? Officer Yarbrough: It's state by state what the particulars of the laws are.
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