Where to put the restraint, Where to put the restraint -45, Caution – Hummer 2005 H2 User Manual

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Where to Put the Restraint

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 child restraint in the right front
passenger’s seat, there is a switch on the instrument
panel that you can use to turn off the passenger’s
air bag. See Airbag Off Switch on page 1-65 and
Securing a Child Restraint in the Right Front Seat
Position
on page 1-54, for more on this including
important safety information.

Never put a rear-facing child restraint in the right front
passenger seat unless the air bag is off. Here is why:

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CAUTION:

A child in a rear-facing child restraint can be
seriously injured or killed if the right front
passenger’s airbag inflates.This is because the
back of the rear-facing child restraint would be
very close to the inflating airbag. Be sure to turn
off the airbag before using a rear-facing child
restraint in the right front seat position.
Even though the airbag off switch is designed to
turn off the passenger’s airbag, no system is fail
safe, and no one can guarantee that an airbag
will not deploy under some unusual
circumstance, even though it is turned off.
General Motors recommends that rear-facing
child restraints be secured in the rear seat, even
if the airbag is off.

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.

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