Safety features of your vehicle
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Air bag - supplemental restraint system
䳜 The SRS air bag system must
deploy very rapidly to provide
protection in a crash. If an occu
pant is out of position because of
not wearing a seat belt, the air
bag may forcefully contact the
occupant causing serious or fatal
injuries.
Side air bag (if equipped)
Your vehicle is equipped with a side
air bag in each front seat.
* The actual air bags in the vehicle
may differ from the illustration.
The purpose of the air bag is to pro
vide the vehicle's driver and/or the
front passenger with additional pro
tection than that offered by the
seat belt alone.
The side air bags are designed to
deploy only during certain side-
impact collisions, depending on the
crash severity, angle, speed and
point of impact. The side air bags
are not designed to deploy in all side
impact situations.
Do not allow the passengers to lean
their heads or bodies onto doors,
put their arms on the doors, stretch
their arms out of the window, or
place objects between the doors and
passengers when they are seated
on seats equipped with side and/or
curtain air bags.
䳜 The side air bag is supplemental
to the driver's and the passen
ger's seat belt systems and is not
a substitute for them. Therefore
your seat belts must be worn at
all times while the vehicle is in
motion. The air bags deploy only
in certain side impact conditions
severe enough to cause signifi
cant injury to the vehicle occu
pants.