Black plate (55,1)
Buick LaCrosse Owner Manual - 2012
Seats and Restraints
3-55
and Tethers for Children (LATCH
System) on page 3
for additional
information on installing the head
restraint properly.
Securing Child Restraints
(Front Passenger Seat)
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
In addition, the vehicle has a
passenger sensing system which is
designed to turn off the right front
passenger frontal airbag and
seat
‐
mounted side impact airbag
under certain conditions. See
Passenger Sensing System on
page 3
and
for
more information, including
important safety information.
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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WARNING
A child in a rear-facing child
restraint can be seriously injured
or killed if the right 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 right front
passenger airbag inflates and the
passenger seat is in a forward
position.
Even if the passenger sensing
system has turned off the right
front passenger frontal airbag, no
system is fail-safe. No one can
guarantee that an airbag will not
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WARNING (Continued)
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 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.
See
for additional
information.
If the child restraint has the LATCH
system, see
Tethers for Children (LATCH
System) on page 3
for how and
where to install the child restraint
using LATCH. If a child restraint is
secured using a safety belt and it