The North Carolina child passenger protection law: Implementation and evaluation. July 1982- June 1985.

North Carolina was one of the first states to enact child passenger safety legislation. The law, which was enacted in 1981 and became effective in 1982, gave child safety advocates a particularly useful tool to use to convince parents to buckle up their children. A brief analysis presented here, of restraint usage rates for young children shows that these activities throughout the years have been successful, but that there is still much room for improvement.