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The best way to protect the fetus is to protect the
mother. When a safety belt is worn properly, it’s more
likely that the fetus won’t be hurt in a crash. For
pregnant women, as for anyone, the key to making
safety belts effective is wearing them properly.

Right Front Passenger Position

To learn how to wear the right front passenger’s safety belt
properly, see “Driver Position” earlier in this section.

The right front passenger’s safety belt works the same way 
as the driver’s safety belt 

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 except for one thing. If you ever

pull the lap portion of the belt out all the way, you will
engage the child restraint locking feature. If this happens, just
let the belt go back all the way and start again.

Supplemental Restraint System (SRS)

This part explains the Supplemental Restraint System
(SRS) or air bag system.

Your vehicle has “Next Generation” frontal air 
bags 

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 one air bag for the driver and another air 

bag for the right front passenger.

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

Here are the most important things to know about the air
bag system:

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 

--

 even Next Generation air bags 

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 are

designed to work with safety belts, but don’t
replace them. Air bags 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,
Next Generation air bags may provide less
protection in frontal crashes than more forceful 
air bags have provided in the past. Everyone 
in your vehicle should wear a safety belt 
properly 

--

 whether or not there’s an air bag 

for that person.