Where to Put the RestraintAccident statistics show that children are safer if theyare restrained in the rear rather than the front seat.We recommend that child restraints be secured in arear seat, including an infant riding in a rear-facing infantseat, a child riding in a forward-facing child seat andan older child riding in a booster seat.Your vehicle has a rear seat that will accommodate arear-facing child restraint. A label on your sun visor says,“Never put a rear-facing child seat in the front.” Thisis because the risk to the rear-facing child is so great,if the airbag deploys.{CAUTION:A child in a rear-facing child restraint can beseriously injured or killed if the right frontpassenger’s airbag inflates. This is becausethe back of the rear-facing child restraintwould be very close to the inflating airbag.CAUTION: (Continued)CAUTION: (Continued)Even though the passenger sensing system isdesigned to turn off the passenger’s frontalairbag if the system detects a rear-facing childrestraint, no system is fail-safe, and no onecan guarantee that an airbag will not deployunder some unusual circumstance, eventhough it is turned off. We recommend thatrear-facing child restraints be secured in therear seat, even if the airbag is off.If you need to secure a forward-facing childrestraint in the right front seat, always movethe front passenger seat as far back as it willgo. It is better to secure the child restraint ina rear seat.Wherever you install a child restraint, be sure to securethe child restraint properly.Keep in mind that an unsecured child restraint canmove around in a collision or sudden stop and injurepeople in the vehicle. Be sure to properly secureany child restraint in your vehicle — even when nochild is in it.1-40
