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Child safety
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WARNING
A child in a child safety seat installed with the
LA TCH lower anchorages or w ith the standard
safety belt or a child in a booster seat on the
rear seat could play with unused rear seat
safety belts and become entangled. This
could cause the child serious personal injury
and even death.
- Always sec ure unused rear seat safety belts
out of reach of ch ildren in child seats such
as by properly routing them around the
head restraint of the seat where the child
restraint is insta lled .
- Never activate the convertible locking re-
tractor when routing the safety belts around
the head restraints.
- Never let anyone sit at the cente r rear seat-
ing position if the center rear safety belt has
been routed around a rear head restraint.
Child
seats
Infant seats
Babies and infants up to about one year old and
20 lbs. or 9 kg need special rearward-facing
child restraints that support the back, neck and
head in a crash.
Fig.
167 Schemat ic overview: rearwa rd-facing infant seat,
properly installe d on the rea r seat
.. When using the vehicle safety be lt to install a
child safety seat, you must firs t activate the
convertible locking retractor on the safety be lt
to prevent the child safety seat from mov ing
q page 176
or install the seat using the LATCH
attachments .
.. Push the child safety seat down with your full
weight to get the safety belt really tight so that
172
the seat cannot move forward or sideways
more than one inch (2 .5 cm) .
.. Secure unused safety belts on the rear seat
q page 171 .
Infants up to about one year (20 lbs. or 9 kg) are
best protected in special infant carri e rs and child
safety seats designed for their age group. Many
experts believe that infants and small children
should ride only in special restraints in wh ich the
child faces the back of the vehicle . These infant
seats support the baby's back, neck and head in a
crash
q fig. 167.
The airbag on the passenger side makes the front
seat a potent ially dangerous place for a child to
ride . The front seat is not the safest place for a
child in a forward-facing ch ild seat . It is a very
dangerous place for an infant or a larger ch ild in
a rearward-facing seat.
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WARNING
Not using a child safety seat, using the wrong
chi ld safety seat or improperly installing a
chi ld restraint increases the risk of serious
personal injury and death in a crash .
- Never install rear-facing child safety seats
or infant carriers on the front passenger
seat - even w ith an Advanced Airbag System .
A child will be serious ly injured and can be
killed when the inflating airbag hits the
child safety seat or infant carrier with great
force and smashes the child safety seat and
child against the backrest, center armrest,
door or roof
q
page
143,
Child restraints on
the front seat - some important things to
know .
-Always install rear-facing ch ild safety seats
or infant carriers
on
the rear seat .
- Never insta ll a rear-facing child restraint in
the forward-facing direction. Such restraints
are designed for the special needs of infants
and very small children and cannot protect
them proper ly if the seat is forward-facing.
- If you must install a rearward facing child
safety seat on the front passenger seat be-
cause of exceptional circumstances and the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not
come on and stay on, immediately install
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