Child Safety Seat
National Child Passenger Safety Seat Week
September 19th to September 25th
JERD has two full time staff personnel which are trained and certified as Child Passenger Safety Seat Technicians. Ryan Fertig and Rachel Boehnlein completed the Safe Kids Child Passenger Safety Seat Course, practicle and written exams and are nationally certified techinicians. If you are interested in having a child safety seat installed or inspected please call Ryan or Rachel to schedule an appointment. Ryan and Rachel can be reached at JERD 440-576-4367 or by email at ryan.fertig@jerd.us or rachel.boehnlein@jerd.us.
"Fifty States, the District of Columbia and Pureto Rico have laws requiring that children be restrained in motor vehicles. Child safety seats and booster seats save lives. They offer the best protection for children in the event of a crash. During the past 30 years, approximatly 8,959 lives have been saved by the use of child restraints according to the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)." (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2010 Child Passenger Safety Week Fact Sheet.)
Ohio Child Passenger Safety Laws
A guide to the Ohio Revised Code
Children from Birth to the age of 4 years AND 40 pounds are required by law to be restrained in an appropriate child restraint device.
Children from the age of 4 years AND 40 pounds to 8 years OR 4'9" tall are to be reatrained using a booster seat.
Children from the age of 8 years OR 4'9" tall up to 15 years of age (regardless of front of back seat occupancy) are required by law to be restrained in a seatbelt.
All of the above laws have the following excemptions:
1) Taxicabs
2) Public Safety Vehicles
3) Vehicles not equipped with seat belts at the time of manufacture
4) Chiropractor or physician affidavit of exemption
5) Life-threaning emergencies
All of the laws require the driver of the vehicle be ticketed and not the child.
Those over the age of 15 years of age can be ticketed as the driver and/or passenger not wearing a seat belt.
Probationary License drivers are responsible for all occupants wearing seat belts in the vehicle and are not permitted to have more passengers in the vehicle than seat belts that are available.
Those under the age of 16 years of age are not permitted to ride in the bed of pickup trucks that are traveling faster than 25 mph. Tailgates cannot be open or sat on except for maintenance/street wrokers.
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