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
The right front passenger’s safety belt works the same
way as the driver’s safety belt. See “Driver Position,”
earlier in this section.
When the lap portion of the belt is pulled out
all the
way, it will lock.
If it does, let it go back all the way
and start again.
Supplemental Inflatable Restraint
(SIR) Systems
This part explains the frontal and side impact
Supplemental Inflatable Restraint
(SIR) systems or air
bag systems.
Your Cadillac has four
air bags -- a frontal air bag for
the driver, another frontal
air bag for the right front
passenger, a side impact air bag for the driver, and
another side impact air bag for the right front passenger.
Here are the most important things to know about the
air bag systems:
A --
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. Air
bags are “supplemental restraints” to the safety
belts. All air bags are designed to work with
safety belts but don’t replace them.
Frontal
air bags for the driver and right front
passenger 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. The side impact
air bags for the driver
and right front passenger are designed to inflate
only
in moderate to severe crashes where
something
bits the side of your vehicle. They aren’t
designed
to inflate in frontal, or in a 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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