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Here are the most important things to know about the air
bag systems:
CAUTION:
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 “supplemental restraints” to
the safety belts. All air bags are designed to work
with safety belts but don’t replace them.
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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. And, for unrestrained occupants, frontal
air bags may provide less protection in frontal
crashes than more forceful air bags have provided
in the past. The side impact air bags for the
driver and right front passenger are designed to
inflate only in moderate to severe crashes where
something hits the side of your vehicle. They
aren’t designed to inflate in frontal, in 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.
