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Starting Monday, Maryland will enforce one of the strictest child-passenger safety laws in the country, requiring children as old as 7 to be fastened in booster seats while riding in cars. The current state law requires children 5 and under to be in a child safety seat.

(Now don’t get me wrong I applaud the new law but it goes a long way toward illustrating a point I have made about Maryland’s approach to traffic safety. Maryland would rather mitigate the carnage than deal with the reckless aggressive driver. Adults vote, seven year old kids do not. It is easier to write a ticket for the seven year old  not in approved car seat than to put a middle-class mother or father in jail for reckless endangerment of a child in a vehicle. We see it everyday in Maryland. Looney mothers and fathers driving well over 70 with little Johnny or Mary in the front or back seat. The officers that write these seat citations will become the new heroes. They still will not have to write citations for the proximate cause of injury. Injury might even go down and statistically Maryland will look squeaky clean until the next highway crash caused by an aggressive driver. Driving in this state is a hell of  a risk but we all have our air bags, seat belts and kids  in car seats. If they can’t hurt us we can drive as we please right?)

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