SEATS AND RESTRAINTS 101Securing Child Restraints(With the Seat Belt in theFront Seat)This vehicle has airbags. A rear seat isa safer place to secure aforward-facing child restraint. SeeWhere to Put the Restraint 0 92.In addition, the vehicle has apassenger sensing system which isdesigned to turn off the frontoutboard passenger frontal airbag andknee airbag under certain conditions.See Passenger Sensing System 0 81 andPassenger Airbag Status Indicator 0 124for more information, includingimportant safety information.Never put a rear-facing child seat inthe front. This is because the risk tothe rear-facing child is so great, if theairbag deploys.{ WarningA child in a rear-facing childrestraint can be seriously injured orkilled if the front outboard(Continued)Warning (Continued)passenger frontal airbag inflates.This is because the back of therear-facing child restraint would bevery close to the inflating airbag.A child in a forward-facing childrestraint can be seriously injured orkilled if the front outboardpassenger frontal airbag inflatesand the passenger seat is in aforward position.Even if the passenger sensingsystem has turned off the frontoutboard passenger airbag(s), nosystem is fail-safe. No one canguarantee that an airbag will notdeploy under some unusualcircumstance, even though theairbag(s) are off.Secure rear-facing child restraintsin a rear seat, even if the airbag(s)are off. If you secure aforward-facing child restraint in thefront outboard passenger seat,(Continued)Warning (Continued)always move the seat as far back asit will go. It is better to secure thechild restraint in a rear seat.See Passenger Sensing System 0 81for additional information.If the child restraint uses a top tether,see Lower Anchors and Tethers forChildren (LATCH System) 0 93 for toptether anchor locations.Do not secure a child seat in aposition without a top tether anchor ifa national or local law requires thatthe top tether be anchored, or if theinstructions that come with the childrestraint say that the top strap mustbe anchored.In Canada, the law requires thatforward-facing child restraints have atop tether, and that the tether beattached.When using the lap-shoulder belt tosecure the child restraint in thisposition, follow the instructions thatcame with the child restraint and thefollowing instructions:
