2003 Cadillac Escalade Owner's Manual - Page 76

Your vehicle has a right front passenger air bag. A rear seat is a safer place to secure a forward-facing child restraint. Unless your vehicle has the passenger sensing system, never put a rear-facing child restraint in this seat. Here's why: A chilu in a rear-facing child restraint can be seriously injured or killed if the right front passenger's air bag inflates. This is because the back of the rear-facing child restraint would be very close to the inflating air bag. Always secure a rear-facing child restraint in a rear seat unless the air bag is off. A -..ild in a rear-facing child restraint can be seriously injured or killed if the right front passenger's air bag inflates. This is because the back of the rear facing child restraint would be very close to the inflating air bag. Be sure the air bag is off before using a rear-facing child restraint in the right front seat position. Even though the passenger sensing system is designed to turn off the passenger's frontal air bag if the system detects a rear-facing child restraint, no system is fail-safe, and no one can guarantee that an air bag will not deploy under some unusual circumstance, even though it is turned off. General Motors therefore recommends that rear-facing child restraints be secured in the rear seat whenever possible, even if the air bag is off. If your vehicle has the passenger sensing system and you need to secure a rear-facing child restraint in the right front passenger's seat, the passenger's air bag must be off. See Passenger Sensing System on page 1-81 and Passenger Air Bag Status Indicator on page 3-34 for more information on this including important safety information. 1-69