Securing Child Restraints; Position) - Cadillac 2014 Escalade ESV Owner's Manual

3-52 Seats and Restraints

Securing Child Restraints

(Front Passenger

Position)

This vehicle has airbags. A rear
seat is a safer place to secure a
forward-facing child restraint. See
Where to Put the Restraint on
page 3-43.
In addition, the vehicle may have a
passenger sensing system which is
designed to turn off the front
passenger frontal airbag under
certain conditions. See Passenger
Sensing System on page 3-31 and
Passenger Airbag Status Indicator
on page 5-14 for more information,
including important safety
information.
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.
Warning
A child in a rear-facing child
restraint can be seriously injured
or killed if the front passenger
airbag inflates. This is because
the back of the rear-facing child
restraint would be very close to
the inflating airbag. A child in a
forward-facing child restraint can
be seriously injured or killed if the
front passenger airbag inflates
and the passenger seat is in a
forward position.
The vehicle may have a
passenger sensing system which
is designed to turn off the front
passenger frontal airbag under
certain conditions.
Even if the passenger sensing
system, if equipped, has turned
off the front passenger frontal
airbag, no system is fail-safe. No
one can guarantee that an airbag
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Warning (Continued)
will not deploy under some
unusual circumstance, even
though it is turned off.
Secure rear-facing child restraints
in a rear seat, even if the airbag
is off. If you secure a
forward-facing child restraint in
the 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.
See Passenger Sensing System
on page 3-31 for additional
information.
Warning
When using a child restraint
system on the front passenger
seat, the airbag system for the
front passenger seat must be
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