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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 bags
for the driver and right front passenger are

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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 

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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. Front occupants should not lean on or
sleep against the door.