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Where to Put the Restraint
Accident statistics show that children are safer if they
are restrained in the rear rather than the front seat.
General Motors, therefore, recommends that child
restraints be secured in a rear seat including an infant
riding in a rear-facing infant seat, a child riding in a
forward-facing child seat and an older child riding in a
booster seat. Never put a child in a rear-facing child
restraint in the right front passenger seat unless
your vehicle has the passenger sensing system and/or
an AIR BAG OFF switch and the air bag status
indicator shows
off.
Never put a rear facing child
restraint in the right front passenger seat unless the air
bag is
off.
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rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured or killed if the right front
passenger's air bag inflates. This
is because the
back of the rear-facing child restraint would be
very close to the inflating air
bag. Be sure the air
bag is off before using a rear-facing child
restraint in the right front seat position.
CAUTION: (Continued)
I
en though the Passenger Sensing System
and/or AIR BAG OFF switch are designed to
turn off the passenger's frontal air bag under
certain conditions, no system is fail-safe, and
no one can guarantee that an air bag will not
deploy under some unusual circumstance,
even though it is turned off. General Motors
therefore recommends that rear-facing child
restraints be transported in vehicles with a
rear seat that will accommodate a rear-facing
child restraint, whenever possible.
If you secure a forward-facing child restraint
in
the right front seat, always move the front
passenger seat as far back
as
it
will go.
It
is
better to secure the child restraint in a rear seat.
There is limited space in the rear seating area of an
extended cab model. If you need to secure a child
restraint in a rear seating position of an extended cab
model, especially in the rear center position, be
sure to study the instructions that came with your child
restraint to see if there is enough room to secure
your seat properly.
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