Table of Contents Cadillac Escalade - IFS Europe BV

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Section 2
CAUTION
CAUTION
CAUTION
If you are too close to an
inflating air bag, it could
seriously injure you. Safety belts
help keep you in position in
case an air bag inflates in a
collision. The driver should sit as
far back as possible while still
able to maintain control of the
vehicle.
Accident statistics show that
children are safer if they are
properly restrained in a child
restraint system secured in the rear
seat.
It is therefore recommended that
children in child restraints and
older children who are large
enough to wear a safety belt be
secured in a rear seat position.
A child in a rear-facing child
restraint in the front passenger
seating position could be
seriously injured or killed if the
passenger's air bag inflates. This
is because the back of the
restraint would be very close to
the inflating air bag.
A child in a forward-facing child
restraint in the front passenger
seating position could be
seriously injured or killed if the
passenger's air bag inflates and
the passenger seat is in a
forward position.
If, however, you secure a
forward-facing child restraint in
the front passenger seat, be
sure to move the front
passenger seat as far back as it
will go.
Although your vehicle is
equipped with a passenger air
bag deactivation feature
which is designed to turn off
the passenger's air bag
under certain conditions, no
system is fail-safe. No one can
guarantee that an air bag
will not deploy under some
unusual circumstance,
even though the system is
deactivated.
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