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Frontal air bags are designed to help reduce the risk 
of injury from the force of an inflating frontal air bag.
But these air bags must inflate very quickly to do their
job and comply with federal regulations.

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 designed to work with safety belts but
don’t replace them.

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CAUTION: (Continued)

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 or low

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speed frontal crashes,

or in many side crashes. And, for some
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 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.