GMC 2003 Savana - Manual (Page 51)

Where to Put the Restraint
Passenger Vans without an Air flag Off
Switch
Accident stalistics show Ihat children are saier if they
are reslfained In Hie rear rather than the front &eal. W&,
theneforen recomniend the! chitd resiraints he secured
in a rear seat including an inlant riding in a rear-facing
infant seat, a child riding in a lorward-facing chlid
seat and an older child nding, in a booster seal, ti your
vehicle has a front passengei air bag, rteverput a
rear-facing child resTrainI in the front passenger scat.
J-fgre’s why
CAUTION:
A child in a reaMaoing child restraint c^n be
seriously injured or killed i1 the air bag Inflates.
This is because the back af the rear-facing
child restraint would be very close to the
Inflating sir bag. If your vehicle has a right
front passenger's air bag^ always secure a
rear-facing child restraint In a rear seat
You may secure a fDrivand’facing child
restraint in the right front seat, hut before you
do^ always rnove the from passenger seat as
far back as il will go, IT? belter lo secure the
child restraint in a rear seat.
Wtierever you install it, bs sure to secure the child
resiraint properly.
Keep in mind that an unsecured child restraint can
move around in a collision or sudeten stop and injure
people in the vahicle. Be sura io props 1y secure
any child restraini in your vehicle - even when no child
IS In it.
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