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can be severely injured or killed in a crash
if
you aren’t wearing your safety belt
-
even if
you have air bags. Wearing your safety belt
during a crash helps reduce your chance of
hitting things inside the vehicle or being
ejected from
it.
Air bags are designed to work
with safety belts but don’t replace them.
Frontal
air
bags
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the driver and right front
passenger are designed to deploy only
in
moderate to severe frontal and near frontal
crashes. They aren’t designed to inflate at all
in rollover, rear or low-speed frontal crashes,
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or
in
many side crashes. And, for some
unrestrained occupants, frontal air bags may
provide less protection
in
frontal crashes
than more forceful air bags have provided in
the past.
The side impact air bags for the driver and
right front passenger are designed to inflate
only
in
moderate to severe crashes where
something
hits
the side of your vehicle. They
aren’t designed to inflate in frontal, in rollover
or in rear crashes.
Everyone in your vehicle should wear
a
safety
belt properly
-
whether or not there’s an air
bag for that person.
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