Owner`s manual

Here Are Questions Many People Ask
About Safety Belts
-- .. and the Answers
‘.e: Won’t I be trapped in the vehicle after an
accident
if I’m wearing a safety belt? I
A: You could be -- whether you’re’wearing a safety
belt or not. But you can unbuckle a safety belt,
even if you’re upside down. And your chance of
being conscious during and after an accident,
so
you can unbuckle and get out, is much greater if
you are belted.
\
Q: ’ If my .vehicle has air bags, why should I have to
A: Air bags are’in many vehicles today and will be in
wear safety belts?
most of them in the fidxue. But they are
supplemental systems only;
so they work with
or the safety belts!
With safety belts,
you slow down as the vehicle does. safety belts -- not instead of them. Every ‘air bag
You get more time to stop. You stop over more distance, system ever offered for sale has required the use of
and your strongest bones take the forces. That’s why
safety belts. Even
if you’re in a vehicle that has air
safety belts make such good sense.
bags, you
still have to buckle up to. get the most
protection. That’s true not 0nly.h frontal collisions,
but especially in side and other collisions.
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