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Seating and Safety Restraints

WARNING: An airbag can kill or injure a child in a child seat. Child seats should never be placed in the front seats, unless passenger airbag switch is turned off. See Passenger airbag on/off switch in this chapter.

WARNING: Rear facing child seats should NEVER be placed in the front seats unless the passenger airbag switch is turned off.

WARNING: Booster seats must be installed only in seating positions equipped with a combination lap/shoulder belt.

WARNING: To reduce the risk of injury, make sure children sit where they can be properly restrained.

How does the airbag supplemental restraint system work?

The airbag SRS is designed to activate when the vehicle sustains sufficient longitudinal deceleration.

The fact that the airbags did not inflate in a collision does not mean that something is wrong with the system. Rather, it means the forces were not of the type sufficient to cause activation. Airbags are designed to inflate in frontal and near-frontal collisions, not rollover, side-impact, or rear-impacts.

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