Securing A Child Restraint In The Right Front Seat Position (With Passenger Sensing System) - GMC 2007 Savana 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 51.
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 89 and
Passenger Airbag Status Indicator on page 172
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.
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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 right
front 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.
If you need to 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.