Child Restraint - Toyota 2006 Land Cruiser Owner's Manual

Child restraint—

—Child restraint precautions
Toyota strongly urges the use of ap-
propriate child restraint systems for
children.
The laws of all 50 states in the U.S.A.
now require the use of a child restraint
system.
Your vehicle conforms to SAEJ1819.
If a child is too large for a child restraint
system, the child should sit in the rear
seat and must be restrained using the
vehicle's seat belt. See "Seat belts" on
page 50 for details.
CAUTION
For effective protection in automo-
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bile accidents and sudden stops, a
child must be properly restrained,
using a seat belt or child restraint
system depending on the age and
size of the child. Holding a child in
your arms is not a substitute for a
child restraint system. In an acci-
dent, the child can be crushed
against the windshield, or between
you and the vehicle's interior.
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Toyota strongly urges use of
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proper child restraint system which
conforms to the size of the child,
installed on the rear seat. Accord-
ing to accident statistics, the child
is safer when properly restrained in
the rear seat than in the front seat.
Never install a rear- facing child re-
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straint system on the front passen-
ger seat. In the event of an acci-
dent, the force of the rapid inflation
of the front passenger airbag can
cause death or serious injury to the
child if the rear- facing child re-
straint system is installed on the
front passenger seat.
A forward- facing child restraint sys-
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tem should be allowed
installed on the front passenger
seat only when it is unavoidable.
Always move the seat as far back
as possible, because the front pas-
senger airbag could inflate
considerable speed and
Otherwise, the child may be killed
or seriously injured.
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curtain shield airbags, do not allow
the child to lean his/her head or
any part of his/her body against the
door or the area of the seat, front
or rear pillar, front, center or rear
garnish or roof interior from which
the side airbags or curtain shield
airbags deploy even if the child is
seated in the child restraint system.
It is dangerous if the side airbag
and curtain shield airbag inflate,
and the impact could cause death
or serious injury to the child.
Do not use the seat belt extender
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when installing
system on the front or rear passen-
ger seat. If installing a child re-
to be
straint system with the seat belt
extender connected to the seat belt,
the seat belt will not securely hold
the child restraint system, which
could cause death or serious injury
with
to the child or other passengers in
force.
the event of collision.
a child restraint