Child Restraint - Toyota 2003 Rav4 Owner's Manual

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In the following cases, contact your Toyota
dealer as soon as possible:
D
The SRS airbags have been inflated.
D
The front of the vehicle (shaded in the
illustration) was involved in an accident
that was not severe enough to cause
the SRS airbags to inflate.
D
The pad section of the steering wheel
or
front
passenger
airbag
(shaded in the illustration) is scratched,
cracked, or otherwise damaged.
NOTICE
Do not disconnect the battery cables
before contacting your Toyota dealer.
'03 Rav4_U (L/O 0208)

Child restraint—

—Child restraint precautions
Toyota strongly urges the use of child
restraint
systems
for
enough to use them.
The laws of all 50 states in the U.S.A.
and Canada 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 42 for details.
CAUTION
D
For effective protection in automo-
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
cover
child restraint system. In an acci-
dent,
the
child can
against the windshield, or between
you and the vehicle's interior.
D
Toyota strongly urges use of
children
small
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.
D
Never install a rear–facing child re-
straint system on the front seat. In
the event of an accident, the force
of the rapid inflation of the airbag
can cause death or serious injury if
a rear–facing child restraint system
is installed on the front seat.
D
Unless it is unavoidable, do not
install a forward–facing child re-
straint system on the front seat.
D
A forward–facing child restraint sys-
tem
should
installed on
seat only when it is unavoidable.
Always move the seat as far back
as possible, because the force of
be crushed
the deploying front passenger air-
bag could cause death or serious
injury to the child.
2003 RAV4 from Aug. '02 Prod. (OM42517U)
a
be
allowed
to
be
the
front passenger
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