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Protecting Children
Your Vehicle is Not
Recommended for Child
Passengers
The National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration and Transport
Canada recommend that all children
age 12 and under be properly
restrained in a back seat.
Since this vehicle does not have a
back seat, we strongly recommend
that you do not carry any child who
is not large enough or mature
enough to ride in front (see page
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General Guidelines
The Passenger's Front Airbag
Poses Serious Risks
Front airbags have been designed to
help protect adults in a moderate to
severe frontal collision. To do this,
the passenger's airbag is quite large,
and it can inflate with enough force
to cause very serious injuries.
Infants
Never put a rear-facing child seat in
this vehicle.
can hit the back of the child seat
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with enough force to kill or very
seriously injure an infant.
If the airbag inflates, it
Small Children
Placing a forward-facing child seat in
the passenger's seat can be
If the vehicle seat is too
hazardous.
far forward, or the child's head is
thrown forward during a collision, an
inflating front airbag can strike the
child with enough force to kill or
very seriously injure a small child.
Larger Children
Children who have outgrown child
seats are also at risk of being injured
or killed by an inflating passenger's
If a larger child must
front airbag.
ride in this vehicle, see page
important guidelines on how to
decide when a child is ready to ride
in front and how to properly protect
the child.
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