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Here are
the
most important things to
know
about the
air
bag
system:
A
CAUTION:
You
can
be
severely injured or killed in
a
crash if
you aren’t wearing your safety belt
--
even if you
have an air bag. Wearing your safety belt during
a
crash helps reduce your chance of hitting things
inside the vehicle
or
being ejected from it. The air
bag is only
a
“supplemental restraint.” That is, it
works with safety belts but doesn’t replace them.
Air bags
are
designed to work only in moderate to
severe crashes where the front of your vehicle hits
something. They aren’t designed to inflate
at
all in
rollover, rear, side
or
low-speed frontal crashes.
Everyone in your vehicle, including the driver,
should wear
a
safety belt properly
--
whether or
not there’s an air bag for that person.
Air bags inflate with great force, faster than the
blink of an eye.
If
you’re
too
close to an inflating
air bag, it couid seriously injure
you.
Safety belts
help keep you
in
position for
an
air bag inflation
in
a
crash. Always wear your safety belt, even
with an air bag. The driver should
sit
as
far
back
as
possible while still maintaining control of the
vehicle.
I
A
CAUTION:
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An inflating air bag can seriously injure small
children. Always secure children properly in your
vehicle. To read how, see the part
of
this manual
called “Children” and the caution label on the
right front passenger’s safety belt.
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