Cargo Vans and Cab and Chassis
Models with an
Air
Bag
Off
Switch
The child restraint must be secured properly in the right
front passenger 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 important 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.
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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