As the use of ride-sharing services increasingly becomes a staple of modern life, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to wade into an apparent issue of first impression: Is it a crime to put a young child in a car for hire that is not equipped with a car seat?

In Commonwealth v. Howard, a three-judge panel of the Pennsylvania Superior Court reversed in part and affirmed in part a conviction for a mother who placed her 3-year-old daughter into the backseat of a car for hire without a car seat that was then involved in an accident. (The court stated that it was unclear whether the vehicle was a taxi or part of a ride-sharing service such as Uber or Lyft.)

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