Where To Put The Restraint - Cadillac 2003 Escalade Owner's Manual

Where to Put the Restraint
Accident statistics show that children are safer if they
are restrained in the rear rather than the front seat.
General Motors, therefore, recommends that child
restraints be secured in a rear seat including an infant
riding in a rear-facing infant seat, a child riding in a
forward-facing child seat and an older child riding in a
booster seat. Never put a child in a rear-facing child
restraint in the right front passenger seat unless
your vehicle has the passenger sensing system and the
passenger air bag status indicator shows off. Never
put a rear facing child restraint in the right front
passenger seat unless the air bag is off. Here's why:
A chil- .n a rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured or killed if the right front
passenger's air bag inflates. This is because the
back of the rear-facing child restraint would be
very close to the inflating air bag. Be sure the air
bag is off before using a rear-facing child
restraint in the right front seat position.
CAUTION: (Continued)
Even though the passenger sen l g system is
designed to turn
off
the passenger's frontal air
bag if the system detects a rear-facing child
restraint, no system
is
fail-safe, and no one
can guarantee that an air bag will not deploy
under some unusual circumstance, even
though it is turned off. General Motors
therefore recommends that rear-facing child
restraints be secured in the rear seat whenever
possible, even if the air bag is off.
If you secure a forward-facing child restraint
in
the right front seat, always move the front
passenger seat as far back as it will go. It is
better to secure the child restraint in a rear seat.
If your vehicle has the passenger sensing system and
you need to secure a rear-facing child restraint in
the right front passenger's seat, the passengers frontal
air bag must be off. See Passenger Sensing System
on page 1-81 and Securing a Child Restraint in the Right
Front Seat Position on page 1-68 for more on this
including important safety information.
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