What year was front seat belts made compulsory?

Question

What year was front seat belts made compulsory?

Answer 1

About 1982/83 (UK)

Answer 2

In UK, wearing seatbelts became compulsory in:

1983 for front seats

1989 for back seats (under 14 yr olds)

1991 for back seats (everyone)

See link below for related timelines, e.g. when fitting them on new cars became compulsory.

Answer 3

The move towards seat belt wearing legislation started in Australia in the late 1960s.

New York State passed the first seat belt law in the US in 1984...............................

Answer 4

1982

Answer 5

Different states have different dates

Answer 6

Wearing them or installing them? In what country or state?

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Answer 7

clunk click every trip -

1974?

Answer 8

i think in 2005 or 2004 for texas

Answer 9

The law states than any car pre 1966 does not have to have seat belts if they were not fitted as standard . But as to when that was enforced I would only be guessing at 1978

Answer 10

1983 - earlier this year they re-showed the original advert with Jimmy Saville in it, to mark 25 years of Front Seat Belts being made compulsory.

Answer 11

It was 1982, fron seat belts had to be fitted by law in cars from 1972 but you didn't have to wear them until 1982.

Answer 12

1982 - i also remember it coming into force when i was at school.lol

Answer 13

In the US Ithink 1968.

Answer 14

None of the below.  According to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 207, Vehicle Seating Systems, any passenger car manufactured on or after January 1, 1972, shall have a lap belt or lap/shoulder belt at each designated seating position.