On July 1, 1982, the North Carolina Child Passenger Protection Law went into effect and requires that children less than age two being driven by their parents in their own car be buckled up. As required by this law, the UNC Highway Safety Research Center has been monitoring and evaluating its effects since 1982. This evaluation reveals that restraint usage rates for children less than age two in North Carolina accidents increased from 30 percent prior to the law's effective date to 70 percent at the end of 1984. Two and three year old children not covered by the law were only half as likely to be restrained in accidents. High restraint usage rates in accidents resulted in the prevention of 55 serious injuries and the saving of 22 lives of North Carolina children less than age two between July, 1982 and November, 1984.