Black plate (38,1)Cadillac ATS (Europe) - 2013 - crc - 10/8/123-38 Seats and RestraintsSecuring the Child Within theChild Restraint{ WARNINGA child can be seriously injured orkilled in a crash if the child is notproperly secured in the childrestraint. Secure the childproperly following the instructionsthat came with that child restraint.Where to Put theRestraintAccording to accident statistics,children and infants are safer whenproperly restrained in a childrestraint system or infant restraintsystem secured in a rear seatingposition.We recommend that children andchild restraints be secured in a rearseat, including: an infant or a childriding in a rear-facing child restraint;a child riding in a forward-facingchild seat; an older child riding in abooster seat; and children, who arelarge enough, using safety belts.Never put a rear-facing child seat inthe front. This is because the risk tothe rear-facing child is so great if theairbag deploys.See Securing Child Restraints (RearSeat) on page 3‑48 or SecuringChild Restraints (Front PassengerSeat) on page 3‑50 for moreinformation, including importantsafety information.DO NOT place rear-facing child seaton this seat. DEATH OR SERIOUSINJURY can occur. This is becausethe risk to the rear-facing child is sogreat, if the airbag deploys.{ WARNINGA child in a rear-facing childrestraint can be seriously injuredor killed if the front passengerairbag inflates. This is becausethe back of the rear-facing childrestraint would be very close tothe inflating airbag. A child in aforward-facing child restraint canbe seriously injured or killed if thefront passenger airbag inflatesand the passenger seat is in aforward position.Even if the passenger sensingsystem has turned off the rightfront passenger frontal airbag, nosystem is fail-safe. No one canguarantee that an airbag will notdeploy under some unusualcircumstance, even though it isturned off.(Continued)
