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Child safety
children, especially those 12 years and younger,
should always ride in the back seat properly re-
strained for their age and size.
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WARNING
Improperly installed child safety seats in-
crease the risk of serious personal injury and
death in a collision.
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- Always make sure that the safety belt re-
tractor is locked when installing a child safe-
ty seat . An unlocked safety belt retractor
cannot hold the child safety seat in place
during normal driving or in a crash.
- Always buckle the child safety seat firmly in
place even if a child is not sitting in it . A
loose child safety seat can fly around during
a sudden stop or in a collision.
- Always make sure that the rear seat back-
rest to which the center rear safety belt* is
attached is securely latched whenever the
rear center safety belt is being used to se-
cure a child restraint.
- If the backrest is not securely latched, the
child and the child restraint will be thrown
forward together with the backrest and will
strike parts of the vehicle interior. The child
can be seriously injured or killed.
- Never install rear-facing child safety seats or
infant carriers on the front passenger seat.
A child will be seriously injured and can be
killed when the passenger airbag inflates.
- The inflating airbag will hit the child safety
seat or infant carrier with great force and
will smash the child safety seat and child
against the backrest, center armrest, door
or roof.
- Always install rear-facing child safety seats
or infant carriers on the rear seat .
- Forward-facing child safety seats or infant
carriers installed on the front passenger's
seat may interfere with the deployment of
the airbag and cause serious injury to the
child.
- It is safer to install a forward-facing child
safety seat on the rear seat.
- Always read and heed all WARNINGS when-
ever using a child restrained in a vehicle is
being used Qpage 167 . Special precautions
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apply when installing a child safety seat on
the front passenger seat
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page 144, Child
restraints on the front seat - some impor-
tant things to know.
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WARNING
Always take special precautions if you must
install a forward or rearward-facing child re-
straint on the front passenger's seat in excep-
tional situations:
- Whenever a forward or rearward-facing
child restraint is installed on the front pas-
senger seat, the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light must come on and stay on whenever
the ignition is switched on.
- If the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does
not come on and stay on, perform the
checks described
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page 154, Monitoring
the Advanced Airbag System.
- Take the child restraint off the front passen-
ger seat and install it properly at one of the
rear seat positions if the
PASSENGER AIR
BAG OFF
light does not stay on whenever
the ignition is switched on.
- Improper installation of child restraints can
reduce their effectiveness or even prevent
them from providing any protection.
- An improperly installed child restraint can
interfere with the airbag as it deploys and
seriously injure or even kill the child .
-Always carefully follow the manufacturer's
instructions provided with the child safety
seat or carrier.
- After checking to make sure that the child
restraint is properly installed, make certain
that the child restraint is correctly recog-
nized by the capacitive passenger detection
system in the front passenger seat and that
the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light signals
the correct front passenger frontal airbag
status.
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WARNING
Forward-facing child restraints:
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