BMW X3 E83 owners manual page 36

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Transporting children safely The right place for children system that has first been properly secured with a safety belt. Children always in the rear All rear seating positions in your vehicle Accident research shows that the safest meet the recommendations of SAE J1819, place for children in a vehicle is in the rear an industry-recommended practice for seat. securing child-restraint systems in motor Older children should be tightly secured vehicles. with a safety belt, after they have outgrown Exception for the front passenger a booster seat that is appropriate for their seat age, height and weight. Should it become necessary to use a A child sitting in the rear seat and not child-restraint system on the front properly restrained may place his or passenger seat, the airbags on the passen- her head on or near the airbag, if so ger's side must be deactivated. The pas- equipped. For example, a child — even senger airbag indicator lamp above the though belted — may fall asleep with his or interior rearview mirror must light up con- her head against the side airbag. It may be tinuously. Otherwise, the front passenger difficult for a driver to ensure that children airbags remain active and there is consid- in the rear seat will remain properly posi- erable risk of injury to children if the airbags tioned at all times and do not place their are triggered, even with a child-restraint heads on or near the side airbag. There- Transporting children safelyfore, we recommend that the rear side air-system. In this case, children should be bags, if provided, be deactivated if you plan seated in the rear and the system should be to transport children in the rear seat.< checked at your BMW Sport Activity Vehi- cle Center.< Deactivation of the rear seat side Never install a rearward-facing child- airbags restraint system in the front passen- The rear seat side airbags may already ger seat of this vehicle if the passenger air- have been deactivated by a BMW Sports bag is not deactivated. If you do so, the Activity Vehicle Center. Labels in the rear child could be severely injured when the door opening should indicate the status of airbag is triggered. your rear seat side airbags. If you are Your vehicle is equipped with an airbag uncertain of their status, or wish to have the supplemental restraint system for the front airbags activated or deactivated, please passenger. Because the backrest on any contact your BMW Sports Activity Vehicle rearward-facing child-restraint system – of Center. the kind designed for infants under 1 year and 20 Ibs/9 kg – would be within the air- Child-restraint system in rear bag's deployment range, you should never mount such a system in the front passenger Children under 13 years of age and seat, since the impact of the airbag against children less than 5 ft/150 cm tall the child restraint's backrest could lead to should always ride in the rear and the serious or fatal injuries.< restraint systems should be properly More information on automatic deactiva- adjusted.< tion of the front passenger airbags, refer to Younger children should be secured in an page 55. appropriate forward-facing child-restraint 34 Online Edition for Part No. 01 41 0 157 631 - © 07/03 BMW AG

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