Infants
(Birth to 12 months)Ride in the back seat in a rear-facing infant or convertible seat.
Your Children Depend on You.
Learn how to protect them with the appropriate restraints, properly installed.
Secure the kids
Secure your most precious cargo.
Discover a woman devoted to keeping kids safe in the car.
Aubrey Klick, Certified Child Passenger Safety Technician, Delaware Office of Highway Safety
KNOW THE RESTRAINT LAWS
Delaware’s restraint laws work to ensure the safety of child passengers.
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Must be properly restrained in a federally approved child safety seat appropriate for the child’s age, weight and height.
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Must wear seat belts.
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Required to sit in the back seat if there are active airbags in the front passenger seating position.
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$25 for each child not appropriately restrained.
FOLLOW THESE SAFETY TIPS
Here are more things you can do to protect your young passengers.
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The center of the back seat is the safest spot for your child.
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Never place a rear-facing car seat in front of an airbag. Airbags can kill young children riding in the front seat.
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Always wear your seat belt.
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Don’t drive until the kids are buckled up – no matter how much they complain.
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Use proper restraints every time, no matter how short the drive is.
Car seat safety
Keep kids safe with the right seat at the right stage.
The appropriate car seat changes as your child grows in age, height and weight. Here is a guide to the four stages of child passenger safety, and the progression of safety restraints you’ll eventually need.
Toddlers
(1 to 3 years)Ride in the back seat in a rear-facing car seat (or convertible seat) until reaching the height or weight limits for that seat, then move on to a forward-facing seat.
Young Kids
(4 to 7 years)Ride in the back seat in a forward-facing car seat with a harness until reaching the height or weight limits for that seat, then move on to a booster seat.
Older Kids
(8 to 12 years)Ride in the back seat, secured by both lap and shoulder belts when riding in a booster seat, or when they have progressed to using the seat belt alone.
Four types of safety restraints
Rear-facing car seat
For infants / toddlers
Forward-facing car seat
For toddlers/young kids
Booster seat
For young kids/older kids
Seat belts
For older kids
Vehicles and heatstroke: Do you know the facts?
In the past 20 years, more than 800 children have died in hot vehicles in the U.S. – often, tragically, because the driver simply forgot they were there, or left them alone in the vehicle “for just a moment.”