Cadillac ESCALADE EXT 2003 Manual page 67

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
the passenger 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.
A child in a 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.
CAUTION: (Continued)
Be sure the air bag is off before using a
rear-facing child restraint in the right front
seat position.
Even though the passenger sensing system is
designed to turn off the passenger's frontal
air bag, if the system detects a rear-facing
child restraint, 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 secured in the rear seat whenever
possible, even if the air bag is off.
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