Virginia driving lesson · Seat Belts, Air Bags & Child Safety Seats
Child Safety Seats
A 3-minute lesson from the Virginia course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
A correctly installed child safety seat greatly reduces a child's risk of death or injury. Virginia sets the age for car seats and boosters, says when children should face the rear, and makes the driver responsible for getting it right.
Know the rule
All children under age 8 must be properly secured in a child safety seat or booster seat in vehicles made after January 1, 1968.
The driver is responsible for making sure children are properly secured. A physician may waive the law for a child's weight, physical fitness or other medical reasons; the transporter must carry the signed statement.
Your 7-year-old nephew says he's too big for a booster. Under Virginia law he must ride in a child safety seat or booster until age 8, and ideally until the belt fits him properly.
Check your understanding
Read the question, decide on an answer, then open it to check the explanation. These are Roadwise study questions based on the source handbook.
Until what age must children generally be properly secured in a child safety seat or booster seat?
Under age 8
Under age 4
Under age 12
Under age 6
Answer: Under age 8
All children under age 8 must be properly secured in a child safety seat or booster seat.