{"id":9184,"date":"2019-10-28T17:04:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T17:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=9184"},"modified":"2019-10-28T17:04:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T17:04:24","slug":"calls-to-increase-age-children-must-use-a-booster-seat-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/calls-to-increase-age-children-must-use-a-booster-seat-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Calls to increase age children must use a booster seat in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation to extend the age that children are required to ride in booster seat to the age of six-years-old has received support.<\/p>\n<p>Currently under Florida law children must be five-years-old before they can be strapped into a seat in the standard way.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Keith Perry has received backing from the Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Committee for the new <a href=\"http:\/\/flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2020\/158\/BillText\/Filed\/HTML\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legislation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeat belts are not designed for children, and extending the protection of booster seats is a common sense safety measure that will help protect Florida\u2019s most vulnerable passengers,\u201d Senator Perry said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to working with Representative Beltran on this transformative piece of legislation that aims to protect children from serious injury and save countless lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the legislation recommending increasing the age by one year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/road-safety\/teen-driving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration<\/a> recommends that children remain in booster seats until a seat belt can be worn properly, which occurs when an individual reaches 57 inches, the average height of eight-year-olds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislation to extend the age that children are required to ride in booster seat to the age of six-years-old has received support. Currently under Florida law children must be five-years-old before they can be strapped into a seat in the standard way. Senator Keith Perry has received backing from the Senate Children, Families, and Elder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":9185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-safety-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}