Child Safety - Subaru 2007 B9 Tribeca Owner's Manual

Child safety

Never hold a child on your lap or
in your arms while the vehicle is
moving. The passenger cannot
protect the child from injury in a
collision, because the child will be
caught between the passenger
and objects inside the vehicle.
While riding in the vehicle, infants
and small children should always
be placed in one of the rear seat-
ing positions recommended in
this owner's manual in an infant
or child restraint system which is
appropriate for the child's age,
height and weight. If a child is too
big for a child restraint system,
the child should sit in a REAR seat
and be restrained using the seat-
belts. According to accident sta-
tistics, children are safer when
properly restrained in the rear
seating positions than in the front
seating positions. Never allow a
child to stand up or kneel on the
seat.
Put children aged 12 and under in
a REAR seat properly restrained
at all times in a child restraint de-
vice or in a seatbelt. The SRS air-
bag deploys with considerable
speed and force and can injure or
even kill children, especially if
they are 12 years of age and under
and are not restrained or improp-
erly restrained. Because children
are lighter and weaker
adults, their risk of being injured
from deployment is greater.
NEVER INSTALL A REARWARD
FACING CHILD SAFETY SEAT IN
THE FRONT SEAT. DOING SO
RISKS SERIOUS INJURY
DEATH TO THE CHILD BY PLAC-
ING THE CHILD'S HEAD TOO
CLOSE TO THE SRS AIRBAG.
Always use the child safety locks
whenever a child rides in the rear.
Serious injury could result if a
child accidentally opened the
door and fell out. Refer to the
"Child safety locks" section in
chapter 2.
Always lock the passenger's win-
dows using the lock switch when
children are riding in the vehicle.
Failure to follow this procedure
could result in injury to a child op-
erating the power window. Refer
to the "Power windows" section
in chapter 2.
Never leave unattended children
in the vehicle. They could acci-
than
dentally injure themselves or oth-
ers through inadvertent operation
of the vehicle. Also, on hot or sun-
ny days, temperature in a closed
vehicle could quickly become
high enough to cause severe or
OR possibly fatal injuries to them.
Carefully read the sections "Child restraint
systems", "*SRS airbag (Supplemental
Restraint System airbag)", and "Seatbelts"
in chapter 1 of this owner's manual for in-
structions and precautions concerning the
child restraint system, seatbelt system
and SRS airbag system.
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