You are driving three friends home. Two of them want to share a single rear seat belt. What does the manual require?
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A.
Two riders may share a belt in the back seat only
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B.
Two riders may share one belt if both are under 100 pounds
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C.
Sharing a belt is allowed on trips under five miles
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D.
Each passenger must have their own belt, one person per belt Correct
The answer is "Each passenger must have their own belt, one person per belt"
The manual writes "one person per belt" into both the adult passenger bullet and the eight-through-fifteen rider bullet, and no listed exemption (emergency vehicles, 1964 or older cars, certain buses, taxi passengers under eight) creates a sharing carve-out. Option B is the classic trap: the 100-pound figure that shows up in the manual's booster-seat guidance decides when a child may leave a booster, not whether two light riders may buckle together under one belt.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Two riders may share a belt in the back seat only
Back-seat riders are held to the same one-person-per-belt rule as front-seat riders. Trades on the folk belief that rear-seat rules are looser than front-seat rules, a habit left over from the era before rear belts were routinely enforced.
B. Two riders may share one belt if both are under 100 pounds
No weight-based sharing rule appears in the manual. Stretches the 100-pound booster-seat cutoff into a permission for two light riders to buckle together, when that figure only decides when a child may leave a booster.
C. Sharing a belt is allowed on trips under five miles
The manual sets no short-trip exception; the belt rule applies whenever the vehicle is moving. Borrows a neighborhood-errand shortcut some parents used for quick runs to the store, which the statute never sanctioned.
This question tests your knowledge of Safety Belts & Restraints in New York. Source: New York State Driver's Manual, "Seat Belts, Child Safety Seats, and Air Bags," p.48..
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