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Knowing your vehicle
What your air bag system
does
Driver’s air bag and front passen-
ger’s air bag are designed to supple-
ment the protection offered by the
safety belt in certain frontal colli-
sions. Likewise, side air bag and cur-
tain air bags are designed to supple-
ment the protection offered by the
safety belt in side collisions. Safety
belts are designed to reduce the
injury of the driver or passengers in
case of impact or collision. No safety
belt or air bag system can complete-
ly eliminate injuries that may cause
in collisions or impacts. To help
reduce impact on driver or passen-
gers in any collision, safety belts
must be correctly worn.
What your air bag system
does not do
The air bag system is designed to
supplement the protection offered by
the safety belt system. IT IS NOT A
SUBSTITUTE FOR THE SAFETY
BELT.
The importance of using
safety belts
There are four very important rea-
sons to use safety belts even with an
air bag supplemental restraint sys-
tem. They:
• help keep you in the proper posi-
tion (away from the air bag) when it
inflates.
• reduce the risk of harm in rollover,
side impact (vehicles not equipped
with side and curtain air bags) or
rear impact collisions, because an
air bag is not designed to inflate in
such situations and even a side
curtain air bag is designed to
inflate only in certain side impact
collisions.
• reduce the risk of harm in frontal or
side collisions which are not
severe enough to actuate the air
bag supplemental restraint system.
• reduce the risk of being ejected
from your vehicle.
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