WARNING
Not wearing a safety belt or wearing an improperly positioned safety belt increases the risk of
severe personal injury or death. Safety belts offer optimum protection only when they are
used properly.
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Properly worn safety belts are the single most effective means of reducing the risk of
serious injury and death in a collision or other accident. For this reason, always wear your
safety belt properly and make sure all passengers wear their safety belts properly as well
whenever the vehicle is moving.
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The driver must always make sure that every person in the vehicle is properly seated on a
seat of his or her own, properly fastens the safety belts belonging to that seat before the
vehicle starts to move, and keeps the belts properly fastened while riding in the vehicle. This
applies even when just driving around town. Therefore, always wear your safety belts and
make sure that everybody in your vehicle is properly restrained.
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Always secure children in the vehicle with a restraint system appropriate for their age,
weight and heigh,
Child safety and child restraints
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Always fasten safety belts correctly before driving off and make sure that all passengers
are properly restrained.
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Never attach the safety belt to the buckle of another seat. Attaching the safety belt to the
wrong buckle will reduce safety belt effectiveness and can cause serious personal injury.
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Never let any objects or liquids get into the safety belt latch and prevent it from working
properly.
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Never remove a safety belt while the vehicle is moving. Doing so will increase your risk of
being injured or killed.
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Never strap more than one person, including small children, into any single safety belt.
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Never let children or babies ride sitting on your lap, and never place a safety belt over a
child sitting on your lap.
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Never wear belts over rigid or breakable objects in or on your clothing, such as eyeglass-
es, pens, keys, etc., as these may cause injury.
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Several layers of heavy clothing (such as a coat worn over top of a sports jacket) may
interfere with proper positioning of the safety belt and reduce the overall effectiveness of the
system.
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Never use comfort clips or devices that create slack in the shoulder belt. However, special
clips may be required for the correct use of some child restraint systems.
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Safety belts offer optimum protection only when the seat backrest is upright and belts are
correctly positioned on the body.
