Children Should Sit In The Back Seat; The Passenger's Front Airbag Poses Serious Risks To Children - Honda 2002 RL Owner's Manual

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Children Should Sit in the Back
Seat
According to accident statistics,
children of all ages and sizes are
safer when they are restrained in the
back seat, not the front seat. The
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration and Transport
Canada recommend that all children
ages 12 and under be properly
restrained in the back seat.
In the back seat, children are less
likely to be injured by striking hard
interior parts during a collision or
hard braking. Also, children cannot
be injured by an inflating airbag
when they ride in the back.
The Passenger's Front Airbag
Poses Serious Risks to Children
Front airbags have been designed to
help protect adults in a moderate to
severe frontal collision. To do this,
the passenger's front airbag is quite
large, and it inflates with tremendous
speed.
Infants
Never put a rear-facing child seat in
the front seat of a vehicle equipped
with a passenger's front airbag.
the airbag inflates, it can hit the back
of the child seat with enough force
to kill or very seriously injure an
infant.
Protecting Children
Small Children
Placing a forward-facing child seat in
the front seat of a vehicle equipped
with a passenger's front airbag can
If the vehicle seat is
be hazardous.
too far forward, or the child's head is
thrown forward during a collision, an
inflating front airbag can strike the
child with enough force to kill or
very seriously injure a small child.
Larger Children
If
Children who have outgrown child
seats are also at risk of being injured
or killed by an inflating passenger's
Whenever possible,
front airbag.
larger children should sit in the back
seat, properly restrained with a seat
belt. (See page 35
information about protecting larger
children.)
Driver and Passenger Safety
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