Last night I aired a report about parents getting caught not strapping their children into car seats. You can see the full report here. While putting together all the elements for this story, I noticed a pattern that I'm sure viewers at home noticed too.
After driving all over Albuquerque, most of the parents we found that broke the car seat law are Spanish-speaking, probably from Mexico or another Latin American country.
I found that in Latin American countries, car seat laws either don't exist or are rarely enforced. This could be why we saw this pattern. Perhaps parents from foreign countries don't expect the law here to be enforced either as a result of upbringing and a different culture.
We decided not to point out this pattern in our report because it was simply anecdotal and couldn't be backed up with traffic violation statistics relating to immigrants.
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