Toyota Avalon 2000 Operating Manual page 91

NOTICE
Do not disconnect the battery cables
before contacting your Toyota dealer.
'00 AVALON U (L/O9908)
Child restraint—
—Child restraint precautions
Toyota strongly urges the use of child
restraint systems for children
enough to use them.
The laws of all fifty states in the U.S.A.
and Canada now require the use of a
child restraint system.
Your vehicle conforms to SAE J1819.
If a child is too large for a child restraint
system, the child should sit in the rear
seat and must be restrained using the
vehicle's seat belt. See "Seat belts" for
details.
CAUTION
D
For effective protection in automo-
bile accidents and sudden stops,
children must be properly
strained using a seat belt or child
restraint system depending on the
age and size of the child. Holding
a child in your arms is not a sub-
stitute for a child restraint system.
In an accident, the child can be
crushed against the windshield, or
between you and the vehicle's inte-
rior.
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Toyota strongly urges use of
small
proper child restraint system which
conforms to the size of the child,
and is put on the rear seat. Accord-
ing to accident statistics, the child
is safer when properly restrained in
the rear seat than in the front seat.
D
Never put a rear- facing child re-
straint system on the front seat. In
the event of an accident, the force
of the rapid inflation of the airbag
can cause death or serious injury if
a rear- facing child restraint system
is put on the front seat.
D
Unless it is unavoidable, do not put
a forward- facing child restraint sys-
tem on the front seat.
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