Securing A Child Restraint In The Right Front Seat Position - Chevrolet Impala 2007 Owner's Manual

Securing a Child Restraint in the
Right Front Seat Position
Your vehicle has a right front passenger's
airbag. A rear seat is a safer place to secure a
forward-facing child restraint. See Where to
Put the Restraint on page 52.
In addition, your vehicle has a 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 77 and
Passenger Airbag Status Indicator on page 179
for more information on this including important
safety information.
A label on your sun visor 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.
CAUTION: (Continued)