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Transporting children safely

The right place for children

Children always in the rear

Accident research shows that the safest
place for children in a vehicle is in the rear
seat.

Older children should be tightly secured
with a safety belt, after they have outgrown
a booster seat that is appropriate for their
age, height and weight.

A child sitting in the rear seat and not
properly restrained may place his or

her head on or near the airbag, if so
equipped. For example, a child, even
though belted, may fall asleep with his or
her head against the side airbag. It may be
difficult for a driver to ensure that children
in the rear seat will remain properly posi-
tioned at all times and do not place their
heads on or near the side airbag. There-
fore, we recommend that the rear seat side
airbags, if provided, be deactivated if you
plan to transport children in the rear seat.

Deactivating rear seat side airbags

The rear seat side airbags may already
have been deactivated by a BMW center.
Labels in the rear door opening should indi-
cate the status of your rear seat side air-
bags. If you are uncertain of their status, or
wish to have the airbags activated or deac-
tivated, please contact your BMW center.

Child-restraint system in the rear

Children under 13 years of age and
children less than 5 ft/150 cm tall

should always ride in the rear and the
restraint systems should be secured with
the vehicle's safety belts.

Younger children should be secured in an
appropriate forward-facing child-restraint
system that has first been properly
restrained. We strongly urge you to care-
fully read and comply with the instructions

for installation and use provided by the
child-restraint's manufacturer whenever
you use such a device.

All rear sitting positions in your vehicle
meet the recommendations of SAE J1819,
an industry-recommended practice for
securing child-restraint systems in motor
vehicles.

Exception for front passenger seat

Should it be necessary to use a child
restraint system on the front passen-

ger's seat, the airbags on the front passen-
ger side must be deactivated. Otherwise,
there is a considerable risk of injury for chil-
dren when the airbags are triggered, even
with a child restraint system. Your BMW
center will be glad to advise you.

Never install a rearward-facing child-
restraint system in the front passen-

ger seat of this vehicle if the passenger’s
airbag is not deactivated. If you do so, the
child could be severely injured when the
airbag is triggered.
Your vehicle is equipped with an airbag
supplemental restraint system for the front
passenger. Because the backrest on any
rearward-facing child-restraint system – of
the kind designed for infants under 1 year
and 20 Ibs./9 kg – would be within the air-
bag's deployment range, you should never
mount such a system in the front passenger
seat, since the impact of the airbag against
the child restraint's backrest could lead to
serious or fatal injuries.

More information on automatic deactiva-
tion of the front passenger airbags, refer to
page

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