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Essential Safety Equipment

Child-Restraint

WARNING

  Always move the front passenger seat 
as far back as possible if installing a 
front-facing child-restraint system on it 
is unavoidable:

  As your vehicle has front air bags and 
doubly so because your vehicle has 
side air bags, a front-facing child-
restraint system should be put on the 
front passenger seat only when it is 
unavoidable.
  Even if the front passenger air 
bag deactivation indicator light 
illuminates, always move the seat as 
far back as possible, because the force 
of a deploying air bag could cause 
serious injury or death to the child.
  

  Never use a rear-facing child-restraint 
system in the front seat with an air bag 
that could deploy:

  Rear-facing  child-restraint  systems 
on the front seat are particularly 
dangerous.
  Even in a moderate collision, the 
child-restraint system can be hit 
by a deploying air bag and moved 
violently backward resulting in 
serious injury or death to the child. 
Even though you may feel assured 
that the front passenger air bag will 
not deploy based on the fact that the 
front passenger air bag deactivation 
indicator light illuminates, you should 
not use a rear-facing child-restraint 
system in the front seat.
  

  Do not allow a child or anyone to lean 
over or against the side window of a 
vehicle with side and curtain air bags:

  It is dangerous to allow anyone to lean 
over or against the side window, the 
area of the front passenger seat, the 
front and rear window pillars and the 
roof edge along both sides from which 
the side and curtain air bags deploy, 
even if a child-restraint system is used. 
The impact of infl ation from a side or 
curtain air bag could cause serious 
injury or death to an out of position 
child. Furthermore, leaning over or 
against the front door could block the 
side and curtain air bags and eliminate 
the advantages of supplemental 
protection. With the front air bag and 
the additional side air bag that comes 
out of the front seat, the rear seat is 
always a better location for children. 
Take special care not to allow a child to 
lean over or against the side window, 
even if the child is seated in a child-
restraint system.