Passenger Vans with an
Air
Bag
Off
Switch
Accident statistics show that children are safer
if
they
are restrained in the rear rather than the front seat. We,
therefore, 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.
If
you
need
to
secure a rear-facing child restraint in the
right front passenger’s seat, turn
off the passenger’s air
bag. See Air Bag
Off
Switch on page
1-72
and
Securing a Child Restraint in the Right Front Seat
Position on page
1-59
for more on this, including
im--
-
rtant safety information.
A
child
in
a rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured or killed if the air bag inflates.
This is because the back of the rear-facing
child restraint would be very close to the
inflating air bag. Be sure to turn
off
the air bag
before using a rear-facing child restraint
in
the
right front seat position.
CAUTION: (Continued)
Even though the
AIR
BAG
OFF
switch is
designed to turn
off
the passenger’s frontal air
bag, no system is fail-safe, and no one can
guarantee that an air bag will not deploy under
some unusual circumstance, even though
it
is
turned
off.
We, therefore recommend that
rear-facing child restraints be transported in
vehicles with a rear seat that will
accommodate a rear-facing child restraint,
whenever possible.
Wherever you install
it,
be sure
to
secure the child
restraint properly.
Keep in mind that an unsecured child restraint can
move around in a collision or sudden stop and injure
people in the vehicle. Be sure
to
properly secure
any child restraint in your vehicle
-
even when no child
is in it.
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