Where To Put The Restraint - GMC Sierra 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.
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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
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CAUTION: (Continued)
inflating airbag. 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.