Child Restraint - Toyota HIACE 2006 Owner's Manual

In the following cases, contact your Toyota
dealer as soon as possible:
• The SRS front airbags have been in-
flated.
• The front of the vehicle (shaded in the
illustration) was involved in an accident
that was not severe enough to cause
the SRS front airbags to inflate.
• The pad section of the steering wheel
or front passenger airbag cover
(shaded in the illustration) is scratched,
cracked, or otherwise damaged.
NOTICE
Do not disconnect the battery cables
before contacting your Toyota dealer.
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Child restraint-
-Child restraint precautions
Toyota strongly urges the use of child
restraint systems for children small
enough to use them.
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 38 in this Section for details.
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CAUTION
• 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
child restraint system. In an acci-
dent, the child can be crushed
against the windshield, or between
you and the vehicle's interior.
• Toyota strongly urges use of a
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.
• Vehicles with a front passenger air-
bag:
Never install a rear-facing child re-
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-
tem should be allowed to be instal-
led on the front passenger seat
only when it is unavoidable. Always
move the seat as far back as pos-
sible, because the front passenger
airbag could inflate with consider-
able speed and force. Otherwise,
the child may be killed or seriously
injured.
• If child restraint system regulations
exist in the country where you re-
side, please contact your Toyota
dealer for the installation of the
child restraint system.