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Child safety
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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 rearward-facing child safety
seats or infant carriers on the front passen
-
ger seat
.
A child will be seriously
injured
and
can be
killed when the passenger airbag in-
flates.
- 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
rearward-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
c:!>
page 152.
Special precautions
apply when
installing
a child safety seat on
the front passenger seat
c:!> page 133, Child
restraints on the front seat
-
some impor-
tant things to know
.
A
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
c:!>
page 142,
Monitoring
the Advanced Airbag System.
162
-
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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.
- Never place additional items on the seat
that
can increase the
total
weight registered
by the weight-sensing
mat
and can cause in-
jury in a crash.
A
WARNING
Forward-facing child
restraints:
-
Always make sure the forward-facing seat
has been designed and
certified by
its man-
ufacturer for
use
on a front seat with a pas-
senger
front and
side
airbag.
-
Never put the forward-facing child restraint
up,
against
or very near
the
instrument
pan-
el.
-
Always move
the
passenger seat into
its
rearmost
position
in the seat's fore and aft
adjustment
range, as far away from the air-
bag as possible
before
installing the for-
ward-facing child restraint. The backrest
must be adjusted to an upright position.
-
Make sure that the
PASSENGER AIR BAG
OFF light
comes on and stays on all the time
whenever the ignition is switched on.
A
WARNING
Rearward-facing child
restraints:
-
A child
in
a rearward-facing child safety seat
installed on the front passenger seat will be
seriously injured and can be killed
if
the
front airbag
inflates
- even with an Ad-
vanced Airbag System
.
.,.
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