Hummer H3T Owner's Manual page 180

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Seats and Restraints
See the following, earlier in this
section, for more information:
• Head Restraints and Head Rests
- Rear Head Rests
Store the head rests in the space
provided on the back panel.
Accident statistics show that chil-
dren are safer if they are restrained
in a child restraint system secured
in the rear seat.
It is therefore recommended that
children in child restraints and
older children who are large
enough to wear a safety belt be
secured in a rear seat position.
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CAUTION
A child in a rear-facing child
restraint in the front passenger
seating position could be seri-
ously injured or killed if the
passenger's air bag inflates. This
is because the back of the
restraint would be very close to
the inflating air bag.
Do not use a rear-facing
restraint in the front passenger's
seat.
CAUTION
Although your vehicle is
equipped with a passenger air
bag deactivation feature which
is designed to turn off the
passenger's frontal air bag
under certain conditions, no
system is fail-safe. No one can
guarantee that an air bag will
not deploy under some unusual
circumstance, even though the
system is deactivated.
In fact, because the risk to a
rear-facing child is so great if
the air bag deploys, there is a
label on your vehicle's sun visor
that cautions you never to put a
rear-facing child seat in the
front.
It is recommended that a rear-
facing child restraint be secured
in the rear seat, even if the air
bag is turned off.