2012 Dodge Durango Owner Manual - Page 60

58 THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE STARTING YOUR VEHICLE If you will be carrying children too small for adult-sized seat belts, the seat belts or the Lower Anchors and Tether for CHildren (LATCH) feature also can be used to hold infant and child restraint systems. For more information on LATCH, refer to Lower Anchors and Tether for CHildren (LATCH). WARNING! Infants in rear facing child restraints should never ride in the front seat of a vehicle with a passenger Advanced Front Air Bag. An air bag deployment can cause severe injury or death to infants in that position. NOTE: The Advanced Front Air Bags have a multistage inflator design. This allows the air bag to have different Children that are not big enough to wear the vehicle seat rates of inflation based on several factors, including the belt properly (see section on Child Restraints) should be severity and type of collision. secured in the rear seat in child restraints or beltHere are some simple steps you can take to minimize the positioning booster seats. Older children who do not use risk of harm from a deploying air bag: child restraints or belt-positioning booster seats should ride properly buckled up in the rear seat. Never allow 1. Children 12 years old and under should always ride children to slide the shoulder belt behind them or under buckled up in a rear seat. their arm.