Securing a Child Restraint in theRight Front Seat PositionYour vehicle has airbags. A rear seat is a safer place tosecure a forward-facing child restraint. See Where toPut the Restraint on page 1-42.In addition, your vehicle has a passenger sensingsystem which is designed to turn off the right frontpassenger’s frontal airbag under certain conditions.See Passenger Sensing System on page 1-65and Passenger Airbag Status Indicator on page 3-33 formore information on this, including important safetyinformation.A label on your sun visor says, “Never put a rear-facingchild seat in the front.” This is because the risk to therear-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 front passengerairbag inflates. This is because the back of therear-facing child restraint would be very close to theinflating airbag. A child in a forward-facing childrestraint can be seriously injured or killed if the rightfront passenger airbag inflates and the passengerseat is in a forward position.Even if the passenger sensing system has turnedoff the right front passenger frontal airbag, nosystem is fail-safe. No one can guarantee that anairbag will not deploy under some unusualcircumstance, even though it is turned off.Secure rear-facing child restraints in a rear seat,even if the airbag is off. If you secure aforward-facing child restraint in the right front seat,always move the front passenger seat as far backas it will go. It is better to secure the child restraint ina rear seat.See Passenger Sensing System on page 1-65for additional information.1-52
