Table of Contents Cadillac Escalade - IFS Europe BV

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Seats and Restraints
CAUTION
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.
CAUTION (Continued)
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.
CAUTION
Although some vehicles are
equipped with a passenger air
bag deactivation feature which
is designed to turn off the
passenger's frontal 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.
In fact, because the risk to a
rear-facing child is so great if
the air bag deploys, there is a
label on your vehicle's sun visor
that cautions you never to put a
rear-facing child seat in the
front.
It is therefore recommended
that child restraints be secured
in a rear seat position even if the
front passenger's air bag is
turned off.
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