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Section
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SYSTEM OPERATION WITH A
CHILD RESTRAINT
Accident statistics show that
children are safer when properly
secured in a rear seat in the correct
child restraint for their weight and
size.
It is therefore recommended that
children in child restraints and
older children who are large
enough to wear a safety belt be
secured in a rear seat position.
CAUTION
A child in a rear-facing child
restraint in the front passenger
seating position could be seri-
ously injured or killed if the
passenger’s air bag inflates. This
is because the back of the
restraint would be very close to
the inflating air bag.
A child in a forward-facing child
restraint in the front passenger
seating position could be
seriously injured or killed if the
passenger's air bag inflates and
the passenger seat is in a
forward position.
If, however, you secure a
forward-facing child restraint in
the front passenger seat, be
sure to move the front passen-
ger seat as far back as it will go.
CAUTION
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Although your vehicle is
equipped with a passenger air
bag deactivation feature
which is designed to turn off
the front passenger's frontal air
bag under certain conditions,
no system is fail-safe. No one
can guarantee that an air bag
will not deploy under some
unusual circumstance,
even though the system is
deactivated.
In fact, because the risk to a
rear-facing child is so great if
the air bag deploys, there is a
label on your vehicle's sun visor
that cautions you never to put a
rear-facing child seat in the
front.
It is therefore recommended
that child restraints be secured
in a rear seat position even if the
front passenger's air bag is
turned off.
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