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 fiont 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
frontal
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:
I
pu 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 “supplemental restraints” to the safety belts.
All air bags -- even redud-force air bags -- are
designed to work with safety belts, but don’t
replace them. Air bags ace designed to work only
in moderate to severe crashes where the front of
your vehicle hits something. They aren’t designed
to Mate at all in rollover, rear, side or low-speed
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