Child Restraint - Chevrolet Impala 1969 Owner's Manual

Child Restraint
Children in automobiles should be
restrained to lessen the risk of injury
in accidents, sudden stops or other
driving conditions. A child seat de-
signed by General Motors specifically
for small children is available from
your dealer. This seat is designed to
position the child for more effective
restraint by the lap belt provided on
your 1969 Chevrolet Product.
The General Motors child seat
should be used only in General Motors
passenger vehicles equipped with lap
belts. It may be used on all seats which
do not fold and on folding seats only
if they are equipped with a latch to
hold the seat back upright (standard
on 1967 and later model General
Motors cars). This seat is only for use
by children weighing up to 30 pounds.
If a child is traveling in a vehicle
not equipped with this General Motors
child seat, the following precautions
should be taken:
1. Children should be placed in the
rear seat. Never allow a child to
stand or kneel on any seat.
2. Infants unable to sit up by them-
selves should be restrained by plac-
ing them in a covered, padded bas-
sinet which is placed crossways in
the vehicle on the rear seat. The
bassinet should be securely re-
strained with the regular vehicle
seat belts. An alternate method is to
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position the bassinet so that it rests
against the back of the front seat,
again crossways in the vehicle.
3. When a child is old enough to sit up
by himself in a car, he should sit on
a firm cushion and use the conven-
tionallap belt to restrain him at the
hips. The cushion should be as firm
as practical and enable the child to
look horizontally out of the car
windows.
4. The use of the cushion should be
discontinued as soon as the child is
old enough to see out of the car
windows without it.
5. Do not use shoulder belts on chil-
dren shorter than approximately
,4 feet 7 inches in height.