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children, especially those 12 years and younge r,
should always ride in the back seat properly re-
stra ined for their age and size.
A
WARNING
-
Improperly installed child safety seats in-
crease the risk of serious personal injury and
death in a collision.
- Always make sure that the safety belt re-
tractor is locked when install ing a child
safety seat . An unlocked safety belt retrac-
tor cannot hold the child safety seat in place
dur ing 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 wh ich the center rear safety belt* is
attached is secure ly 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 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 rear-facing child safety seats
or infant carriers on the rear seat.
- Forward-fac ing child safety seats or infant
carriers installed on the front passenger's
seat may inte rfe re with the deployment of
the airbag and cause serious injury to the
child.
- It is safer to install a forward-fac ing child
safety seat on the rear seat.
- Always read and heed all WARNINGS when-
ever using a child restrained in a veh icle is
Ch ild safety
being used ¢ page 166 . Special precautions
apply when instal ling a child safety seat on
the front passenger seat
¢
page 143, Child
restraints on the front seat - some impor-
tant things to know .
A
WARNING
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Always take special precautions if you must
install a forward or rearward-facing child re-
stra int on the front passenger 's seat in excep -
tional s ituations:
- Whenever a forward or rearward-fac ing
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
¢
page 153, 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 installat ion of child restraints can
reduce the ir effectiveness or even prevent
them from providing any protect ion.
- An improperly installed child restra int can
interfere with the airbag as it deploys and
serious ly injure or even kill the child .
- Always carefully follow the manufacturer's
instructions provided with the child safety
seat or carr ier .
- 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 passenge r detection
system in the fron t passenger seat and that
the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light signals
the correct front passenger frontal airbag
stat us.
A
WARNING
Forward-facing child restra ints :
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