Where To Put The Restraint - Chevrolet Silverado Classic 2007 Owner's Manual

Where to Put the Restraint

Accident statistics show that children are safer
if they are restrained in the rear rather than
the front seat. We recommend that child restraints
be secured in a rear seat including an infant
riding in a rear-facing infant seat, a child riding
in a forward-facing child seat, and an older
child riding in a booster seat.
A label on the sun visor says, "Never put a
rear-facing child seat in the front." This is
because the risk to the rear-facing child is
so great, if the airbag deploys.
CAUTION:
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A child in a rear-facing child restraint
can be seriously injured or killed if the
right front passenger's airbag inflates.
This is because the back of the
rear-facing child restraint would be
very close to the inflating airbag.
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Be sure the airbag is off before using
a rear-facing child restraint in the right
front seat position.
Even though the passenger sensing
system or airbag off switch are designed
to turn off the passenger's frontal airbag
under certain conditions, no system is
fail-safe, and no one can guarantee that
an airbag will not deploy under some
unusual circumstance, even though
it is turned off. We recommend that
rear-facing child restraints be transported
in vehicles with a rear seat that will
accommodate a rear-facing child restraint,
whenever possible.
If you need to secure a forward-facing
child restraint in the right front seat,
always move the front passenger seat
as far back as it will go. It is better to
secure the child restraint in a rear seat.