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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 

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 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.

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

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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 bag for

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the driver is designed to inflate only in moderate
to severe crashes where something hits the
driver’s side of the vehicle. It isn’t designed to
inflate in frontal, in rollover or in rear crashes.
Everyone in your vehicle should wear a safety
belt properly 

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 whether or not there’s an air bag

for that person.

CAUTION:

Both frontal and side impact air bags inflate 
with great force, faster than the blink of an eye. 
If you’re too close to an inflating air bag, as you
would be if you were leaning forward, it could
seriously injure you. Safety belts help keep you 
in position for air bag inflation before and during
a crash. Always wear your safety belt, even with
frontal air bags. The driver should sit as far back
as possible while still maintaining control of the
vehicle, and should not lean on the door.