Owner`s manual
The best way to protect the fetus is to protect the
mother. When a safety belt
is
worn properly, it’s more
likely that the fetus won’t be hurt in a crash. For
pregnant women, as for anyone, the key to making
safety belts effective is wearing them properly.
Right Front Passenger Position
To
learn how to wear the right front passenger’s safety belt
properly, see “Driver Position” earlier in
this
section.
The right front passenger’s safety belt works the same way as
the
driver’s safety belt
--
except for one thing. If you ever pull
the lap portion of the belt out all the way, you will engage the
child restraint locking feature.
If
this happens, just let the belt
go back all the way and start again.
If your vehicle has a center passenger position, be sure
to use the correct buckle when buckling your
lap-shoulder belt. If you find that the latch plate will not
go fully into the buckle, see if
you
are using the buckle
for the center passenger position.
Supplemental Restraint System (SRS)
This part explains the Supplemental Restraint System
(SRS) or air bag system.
Your vehicle has “Next Generation” reduced-force
frontal air bags
--
one air bag for the driver and another
air bag for the right front passenger.
Reduced-force frontal air bags are designed to help
reduce the risk of injury from the force of an inflating
air bag. But even these air bags must inflate
very
quickly
if
they are to do their job and comply with
federal regulations.
Here are the most important things to know about the air
bag system:
You 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 6‘supplemental restraints” to the safety
belts. All air bags
--
even reduced-force air
~
bags
--
are designed to work with safety belts,
but don’t replace them.
Air
bags
are
designed to
work only in moderate to severe crashes where
the front of your vehicle hits something. They
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