All car passengers are now required to wear seatbelts in New York, including those in the back seat.

The tighter restrictions, which took effect on Sunday, also include new rules for passengers who ride in cabs and ubers.

“The statistics are so clear; 60% of fatalities can be reduced if backseat passengers wear seatbelts, and 11% in the backseat of cabs,” State Senator and bill sponsor Brad Hoylman told NY1.

It is especially common in New York City for backseat passengers in taxis to be flung forward and hit partitions, causing not just split lips and chipped teeth, but in some cases brain damage. And the number of partitions have only increased in the pandemic.

These types of incidents are common enough in the city that NYU Langone Health has come up with the term “partition face” to describe patient injuries, explained Hoylman.

A backseat passenger not wearing a seatbelt is eight times more likely to be injured, and twice as likely to be killed, according to AAA.

Decades ago, New York was among the first states to have seatbelt legislation, but it has since fallen behind. It now joins more than 30 other states with similar backseat seatbelt laws.