Knowing your vehicle
The importance of using
safety belts
Your
vehicle’s
Supplemental
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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 fully pro-
tected, and thus face a greater
risk of serious injury or death.
There are four very important rea-
sons to use safety belts even with an
airbag supplemental restraint sys-
tem. They:
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
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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.
are not
Frontal
airbags
designed to provide protec-
tion in side impacts, rear
impacts, rollovers, or less
severe frontal collisions. They
will not provide protection
from later impacts in a multi-
impact collision.
•
•
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 | 2007 |
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