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• Everyone buckles up, including adults in the back 
seat. Make no exceptions. If someone unbuckles, 
stop the vehicle. Be rm and consistent from the start 
so children know the rules. An unrestrained person 
increases the risk of death for everyone else as they 
can y into and injure other passengers.
• Never take a child out of a booster seat for any 
reason while the vehicle is moving.  
• Do not leave loose objects, bags or luggage in the 
passenger area. In a crash they will be much heavier 
than usual and can y around and hurt the people in 
the car.  
• Do not leave your child unattended in the vehicle, 
even for a minute. Your child can get tangled in the 
seat belt and strangle.
• This booster seat must be secured when the child 
is not in it. This booster seat is a heavy object that 
can severely hurt others in a crash if it were to y 
around the car. There are two ways you can secure 
this booster seat when the child is not in it to prevent 
it from becoming a deadly projectile. You only need 
to use one of these ways.  
1. Use the rigid LATCH (see page 25-26)
2. Use the vehicle’s seat belt to buckle in the empty 
booster 
SAFE PRACTICES