Saturn 2008 Astra - Manual (Page 57)

Securing Child Restraints
(Right Front Seat)
Your vehicle has airbags. A rear
seat is a safer place to secure a
forward-facing child restraint.
See Where to Put the Restraint
on page 1-43.
In addition, your vehicle has a
passenger sensing system which
is designed to turn off the right
front passenger’s frontal and
seat-mounted side impact airbag
under certain conditions. See
Passenger Sensing System on
page 1-30 and Passenger Airbag
Status Indicator on page 4-15 for
more information on this, including
important safety information.
A label on your sun visor says,
“Never put a rear-facing child seat
in the front.” This is because the risk
to the rear-facing child is so great,
if the airbag deploys.
{ CAUTION
A child in a rear-facing child
restraint can be seriously
injured or killed if the right
front passenger airbag inflates.
This is because the back of
the rear-facing child restraint
would be very close to the
inflating airbag. A child in a
forward-facing child restraint
can be seriously injured or
killed if the right front passenger
airbag inflates and the
passenger seat is in a forward
position.
Even if the passenger sensing
system has turned off the right
front passenger frontal airbag,
no system is fail-safe. No one
can guarantee that an airbag will
not deploy under some unusual
circumstance, even though it is
turned off.
(Continued)
CAUTION (Continued)
Secure rear-facing child
restraints in a 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.
See Passenger Sensing System
on page 1-30 for additional
information.
If your child restraint has the LATCH
system, see Lower Anchors and
Tethers for Children (LATCH) on
page 1-45 for how to install your child
restraint using LATCH. If you secure
a child restraint using a safety belt
and it uses a top tether, see Lower
Anchors and Tethers for Children
(LATCH) on page 1-45 for top tether
anchor locations.
Seats and Restraints 1-53