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Riding unrestrained in a pickup truck bed can be fatal as it offers no protection in a crash.

Kansas law prohibits anyone under 14 from riding in a truck bed on many public roads.

The Kansas law does not apply on private property or during authorized parades and exhibitions.

Riding unrestrained in the open bed of a moving pickup truck proved fatal last July for two men , 19 and 20, who were ejected when that truck slammed into the rear of another vehicle in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Trucks provide no protection in a crash to passengers riding in their beds, said the website of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety , which works to make roads and vehicles safer.

"Depending on where you live, people in the backs of pickup trucks might be a common sight,

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