Child Restraint - Toyota RAV4 2002 Owner's Manual

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In the following cases, contact your Toyota
dealer as soon as possible:
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The SRS airbags have been inflated.
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The front of the vehicle (shaded in the
illustration) was involved in an accident
that was not severe enough to cause
the SRS airbags to inflate.
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The pad section of the steering wheel
or front passenger airbag
(shaded in the illustration) is scratched,
cracked, or otherwise damaged.
NOTICE
Do not disconnect the battery cables
before contacting your Toyota dealer.
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'02 Rav4_U (L/O 0108)

Child restraint—

—Child restraint precautions
Toyota strongly urges the use of child
restraint systems for
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 SAEJ1819.
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" on
page 40 for details.
CAUTION
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For effective protection in automo-
bile accidents and sudden stops, a
child must be properly restrained,
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 substitute for a
cover child restraint system. In an acci-
dent, the child can
against the windshield, or between
you and the vehicle's interior.
2002 MY RAV4_U (OM42503U)
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Toyota strongly urges use of
children small
proper child restraint system which
conforms to the size of the child,
installed 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.
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Never install 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 installed on the front seat.
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Unless it is unavoidable, do not
install a forward–facing child re-
straint system on the front seat.
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A forward–facing child restraint sys-
tem should be allowed to installed
on the front seat only when it is
unavoidable. Always move the seat
as far back as possible, because
the force of the deploying airbag
be crushed
could cause death or serious injury
to the child.
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