Under Nevada law, at what age must a vehicle passenger begin wearing a safety belt if the vehicle is equipped with them?
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A.
Age twelve
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B.
Age six Correct
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C.
Age two
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D.
Age seven
The answer is "Age six"
Nevada law requires the driver and any passenger age six and older to wear a safety belt whenever the vehicle is equipped with them. Age six is when Nevada's general safety-belt requirement begins. Children under age six, and children under 57 inches tall, must be in an approved child restraint system rather than a standard belt.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Age twelve
Age twelve is the minimum age of a person who may supervise an unattended child in a vehicle, not the seat belt age. This answer recalls that age twelve appears in Nevada's child-in-vehicle rules and picks it without noticing it belongs to the rule on who may supervise an unattended child.
C. Age two
Age two is the rear-facing child seat cutoff, not the age at which a passenger switches to a standard safety belt. This answer reads the two-year rear-facing cutoff as the point where a child moves straight into an adult safety belt, skipping the forward-facing and booster stages.
D. Age seven
Age seven relates to Nevada's rule against leaving a child unattended in a vehicle, not to the seat belt requirement. This answer grabs the seven-or-younger figure from the rule on leaving children alone in a car and assumes it also marks when the belt requirement begins.
This question tests your knowledge of Vehicle Equipment in Nevada. Source: Nevada Driver Manual, "Chapter 2 - Buckle Up," p.25..
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