Under Texas law, who is required to wear a safety belt in a passenger vehicle equipped with belts?
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A.
Only the driver and the front-seat passenger.
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B.
Only occupants under 18 and the driver.
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C.
Only the driver of the vehicle.
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D.
The driver and all passengers, regardless of age. Correct
The answer is "The driver and all passengers, regardless of age."
Texas requires every occupant of a seat that has a belt installed to buckle up, and age does not excuse anyone in the vehicle. Drivers who only ever hear the belt reminder chime for the two front seats often assume the law tracks that chime and stops at the front row, so they reach for the front-seat-only choice.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Only the driver and the front-seat passenger.
Texas belt law covers every seat in the vehicle that has a belt installed, front or rear. This answer extends the front-seat belt reminder chime into a legal rule, assuming rear-seat passengers fall outside the belt law.
B. Only occupants under 18 and the driver.
The law covers every passenger regardless of age, not only minors. This answer treats the belt rule as a youth-safety statute and borrows the child-passenger age cap as the outer limit.
C. Only the driver of the vehicle.
Passengers must also wear belts under Texas law, not only the driver. This answer reads the driver's citation liability as the whole rule, missing that each occupant is covered separately.
This question tests your knowledge of Safety Belts & Restraints in Texas. Source: Texas Driver Manual, "Safety Belts," p.64..
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