Securing A Child Restraint In The Right Front Seat Position (With Passenger Sensing System) - Chevrolet 2006 Express Van Owner's Manual

Securing a Child Restraint in
the Right Front Seat Position
(With Passenger Sensing System)
Your vehicle has a right front passenger airbag. A rear
seat is a safer place to secure a forward-facing child
restraint. See Where to Put the Restraint on page 1-40.
In addition, your vehicle has the passenger sensing
system. The passenger sensing system is designed to
turn off the right front passenger's frontal airbag when
an infant in a rear-facing infant seat or a small child in a
forward-facing child restraint or booster seat is detected.
See Passenger Sensing System on page 1-76 and
Passenger Airbag Status Indicator on page 3-29
for more information on this including important safety
information.
If your vehicle has a rear seat that will accommodate a
rear-facing child restraint, there is a label on your sun
visor that says, Never put a rear-facing child seat in
the front. This is because the risk to the rear-facing
child is so great, if the airbag deploys.
CAUTION:
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A child in a rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured or killed if the right front
passenger's airbag inflates. This is because
the back of the rear-facing child restraint
would be very close to the inflating airbag.
Even though the passenger sensing system is
designed to turn off the passenger's frontal
airbag if the system detects a rear-facing child
restraint, no system is fail-safe, and no one
can guarantee that an airbag will not deploy
under some unusual circumstance, even
though it is turned off. We recommend that
rear-facing child restraints be secured in the
rear seat, even if the airbag is off.
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