Knowing your vehicle
The importance of using
safety belts
✽NOTICE
(Continued)
Your
vehicle’s
Supplemental
Restraint System Control Module is
equipped with a recording device
that may record the use or status of
the safety belt restraint system by
the driver and front passenger in
certain collisions.
•
If occupants are not wearing
safety belts or correctly seat-
ed, they cannot be protected,
and thus face serious injury or
death.
There are four very important rea-
sons to use safety belts even with an
airbag supplemental restraint sys-
tem. They:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
•
help keep you in the proper posi-
tion (away from the airbag) when it
inflates.
•
Driver’s and front passenger’s
airbag are designed to inflate
only in certain frontal colli-
sion, and side and curtain
airbags are designed to inflate
WARNING - Airbags &
safety belts
•
reduce the risk of harm in rollover,
side impact (vehicles not equipped
with side and curtain airbags) or
rear impact collisions, because an
airbag is not designed to inflate in
such situations and even a side
curtain airbag is designed to inflate
only in certain side impact colli-
sions.
• Even in vehicles with air bags,
you and your passengers
must always wear the safety
belts provided in order to min-
imize the risk and severity of
injury in the event of a colli-
sion or rollover.
• Always wear your safety belt.
It can help keep you away
from the air bags during heavy
braking just before a collision.
in
certain
side
impacts.
Frontal airbags will generally
not provide protection in side
impacts
equipped with side and cur-
tain airbags) or rear impacts,
rollovers, less severe frontal
collisions. They will not pro-
vide protection from later
impacts in a multi-impact col-
lision.
(vehicles
not
•
•
reduce the risk of harm in frontal or
side collisions which are not
severe enough to actuate the
airbag supplemental restraint sys-
tem.
reduce the risk of being ejected
from your vehicle.
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| Model Year | 2005 |
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