Specifications

Passenger Vans with an Air Bag Off
Switch
Accident statistics show that children are safer if they
are restrained in the rear rather than the front seat. We,
therefore, recommend that child restraints be secured
in a rear seat, including an infant riding in a rear-facing
infant seat, a child riding in a forward-facing child
seat and an older child riding in a booster seat. If you
need to secure a rear-facing child restraint in the
right front passenger’s seat, turn
off the passenger’s air
bag. See Air Bag
Off Switch on page 1-70 and
Securing
a Child Restraint in the Right Front Seat
Position on page
1-58 for more on this, including
important safety information.
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A child in a rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured or killed if the air bag inflates.
This
is because the back of the rear-facing
child restraint would be very close to the
inflating air bag. Be sure to turn
off the air bag
before using
a rear-facing child restraint in the
right front seat position.
CAUTION: (Continued)
Even though the
AIR BAG OFF switch is
designed to turn
off the passenger’s frontal air
bag, no system
is fail-safe, and no one can
guarantee that an air bag
will not deploy under
some unusual circumstance, even though
it is
turned
off. We, therefore recommend that
rear-facing child restraints be transported
in
vehicles with a rear seat that will
accommodate a rear-facing child restraint,
whenever possible.
Wherever you install it, be sure to secure the child
restraint properly.
Keep in mind that an unsecured child restraint can
move around in a collision or sudden stop and injure
people in the vehicle. Be sure to properly secure
any child restraint in your vehicle
- even when no child
is in it.
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