[Spridgets] Safety - Seat Belts and Roll Bar Question

Bill L pythias at pacifier.com
Fri Mar 6 10:05:17 MST 2009


Hello Kirk,

     I've read the statues for Washington State. Here, any car sold in
     or after the 1964 Model year was required to have front seat
     belts. If a car originally sold in another state is brought into
     Washington, the owner has 60 days (IIRC) to install them.
     There's an RC#. lets' call it 1145.67

     A later law lets call it RC 1245.7, requires 3 point lap and
     shoulder belts as per federal law (1968), and a still later law
     call for belts in the rear seats. lets call it RC 1345.7.

     A still later law says that anyone riding in a car covered under
     rc 1145.7, 1245.7 or 1345.7 must wear the belts...

     and a still later law say that any car equipped under any of the
     three must use a child safety seat.

     This is the only law i've ever seen dealing with automobiles that
     requires retrofitting of safety equipment, as Federal law dealing
     with seat belts didn't come into effect until, again IIRC 1966,
     with the majority of now accepted safety equipment coming in
     1968. 



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 Bill L.                           mailto:pythias at pacifier.com
 
 '66 Sprite MKIII HAN8L49403   "the red thing"
 
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