Virginia will continue to have one of the weakest seatbelt laws in the country after a Senate committee killed a bill to require rear-seat passengers in a motor vehicle to wear safety belts and to make violating the state’s seatbelt …
A bill that would require school buses to have seatbelts is being considered by lawmakers in Washington, one of more than a dozen states where school seatbelt measures are on the legislative agenda this year. The Senate Transportation Committee held …
Wyoming’s outgoing epidemiologist for workplace safety says the state needs to hire more workplace safety inspectors and adopt a tougher seatbelt law. The job of the state workplace safety epidemiologist is to track and analyze workplace injury statistics. Mack Sewell …
An Oklahoma House committee has approved legislation that would require passengers in the back seat of vehicles to wear seatbelts. The House Public Safety Committee voted 7-5 for the measure Wednesday and sent it to the full House for a …
More South Carolinians are using seatbelts. A new study from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that seatbelt usage in South Carolina increased from 86 percent in South Carolina in 2011 to 90 percent last year. South Carolina’s seatbelt …