When choosing a child restraint, be sure the child
restraint is designed to be used in a vehicle. If it is, it
will have a label saying that it meets federal motor
vehicle safety standards.
Then follow the instructions for the restraint. You may
find these instructions on the restraint itself or in a
booklet, or both. These restraints use the belt system in
your vehicle, but the child also has to be secured
within the restraint to help reduce the chance of personal
injury. When securing an add-on child restraint, refer
to the instructions that come with the restraint which may
be
on
the restraint itself or in a booklet, or both, and
to this manual. The child restraint instructions are
important,
so
if
they are not available, obtain a
replacement copy from the manufacturer.
Where
to
Put the Restraint
Accident statistics show that chldren are safer
if
they
are restrained in the rear rather than the front seat.
General Motors, therefore, recommends 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. Never put a child in a rear-facing child
restraint in the right front passenger seat unless
your vehicle has the passenger sensing system and the
passenger air bag status indicator shows
off.
Never
put a rear facing child restraint in the right front
passenger seat unless the air bag is
off.
Here’s why:
A
child
in
a rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured or killed if the right front
passenger’s 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 the air
bag
is
off
before using a rear-facing child
restraint in the right front seat position.
If you secure a forward-facing child restraint in
the right front seat, always move the front
passenger seat as far back as
it
will go.
It
is
better to secure the child restraint in a rear seat.
Even though
the
Passenger Sensing System is
designed to turn
off
the passenger’s frontal air
bag if the system detects a rear-facing child
restraint, 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.
General Motors therefore
recommends that rear-facing child restraints be
secured in the rear seat whenever possible,
even if the air bag
is
off.
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