Cadillac Escalade Owner's Manual page 204

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Seats and Restraints
SYSTEM OPERATION WITH A
CHILD RESTRAINT
Accident statistics show that
children are safer if they are
properly restrained in a child
restraint system secured in the rear
seat.
It is therefore recommended that
children in child restraints and
older children who are large
enough to wear a safety belt be
secured in a rear seat position.
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CAUTION
A child in a rear-facing child
restraint in the front passenger
seating position could be
seriously injured or killed if the
passenger's air bag inflates. This
is because the back of the
restraint would be very close to
the inflating air bag.
A child in a forward-facing child
restraint in the front passenger
seating position could be
seriously injured or killed if the
passenger's air bag inflates and
the passenger seat is in a
forward position.
If, however, you secure a
forward-facing child restraint in
the front passenger seat, be
sure to move the front passen-
ger seat as far back as it will go.
CAUTION
Although some vehicles are
equipped with a passenger air
bag deactivation feature which
is designed to turn off the front
passenger's frontal air bag
under certain conditions, no
system is fail-safe. No one can
guarantee that an air bag will
not deploy under some unusual
circumstance, even though the
system is deactivated.
In fact, because the risk to a
rear-facing child is so great if
the air bag deploys, there is a
label on your vehicle's sun visor
that cautions you never to put a
rear-facing child seat in the
front.