It won't be long before area schools will be back in session and that always calls for heightened concern on the roads -- for drivers and pedestrians.

Kids watched in amazement Thursday as the State Patrol demonstrated how important seat belts can be in a rollover crash.

The Patrol's Keith Bell demonstrated the rollover simulator and said, "I can spin this a long time, and they're not going to come out of there, because they're wearing their seatbelts."

Even something as simple as a book bag, turned projectile, can become dangerous during a rollover.

While Iowa and Nebraska state troopers are teaming up with AAA to teach young kids about seat belt safety, parents of teens are looking for ways to keep their young drivers, safer.

Donna Dawson had a camera installed in her 17-year-old daughter's car.

Donna says the camera, "can see all passengers in the car as well as Robin -- if she's wearing her seat belt; if she's on her cell phone."

Donna says she had the camera put in a year after her daughter got her driver's license, "and in that one year period of time, she totaled one car and walked away unharmed, and then had a very expensive speeding ticket."

It's part of American Family Insurance Company's Teen Safe Driver Program. The camera is installed for free and records only when triggered by irresponsible driving.

Robin Dawson says, "I make sure that I'm a lot more careful, and just cautious as to not to trigger it because then when it is triggered I get talked to."

The talk is triggered by email sent to the parents alerting them to watch video of the incident.

Donna says, "We can use that as a coaching experience, learning experience, where she and I can both look at the video and see what she did wrong."

Donna says the camera is like having a parent sitting in the passenger's seat.

American Family says it's too early to have hard statistics on the overall impact of the cameras but they claim it has had a positive effect on increasing seat belt use.