The Dover Police Department aggressively enforces the State of Delaware child restraint and seatbelt laws:
| Child Restraints |
| Delaware's child restraint law
requires all children under four years of age to be secured in a child
restraint system that meets the federal motor vehicle safety
standards. *Note-- The 4 years or 40 lbs. law is no longer in
effect. All children under the age of 4 must be in a child
restraint! This is a primary offense, and a driver can be
stopped and fined for this violation by itself. |
| Seat Belts |
| The current seat belt law
states that all front seat occupants must wear a properly adjusted and
fastened seat belt, which meets the applicable federal motor vehicle
safety standards. Violation of this law is a secondary offense, meaning
a motorist must be stopped for some other violation first. However,
a 40% assessment is added to the primary offense fine for the seatbelt
violation. The law also states that all children
between the ages of 4-16 must wear a seatbelt at all times while in a
motor vehicle operated on the roadways, streets, or
highways of this state. This is a primary offense, and
a driver can be stopped and fined for this violation by itself. The Dover Police Department issued over 900 seat belt arrests between April and June of 2000. |
| Educational seat belt safety check points and seat belt surveys are also conducted periodically to gauge seat belt compliance within the City of Dover. |  |
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