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Airbag system
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& WARNING (continued )
• Even when they deploy, airbags provide only supplemental
prote ction .
• Airbag work most effectively when used with properly worn
safety belts .
• Therefore , always wear your safety belts and make sure that
everybody in your vehicle is properly restrained.
& WARNING
A person on the front passenger seat, especially infants and small
children, will receive serious injuries and can even be killed by
being too close to the airbag when it inflates .
• Although the Advanced Airbag System in your vehicle is
designed to turn off the front passenger airbag if an infant or a
small child is on the front passenger seat , nobody can absolutely
guarantee that deployment under these special conditions is
impossible in all conceivable situations that may happen during
the useful life of your vehicle.
• The Advanced Airbag System can deploy in accordance with
the "low risk" option under the U.S. Federal Standa rd if a child that
is heavier than the typical one-year old child is on the front
passenger seat and the other conditions for airbag deployment
are met.
• Accident statistics have shown that children are generally safer
in the rear seat area than in the front seating position .
• For their own safety, all children, especially 12 years and
younger, should always ride in the back properly restrained for
their age and size. •
Advanced front airbag system
Your vehicle is equipped with a front Advanced Airbag System in
complia nce wit h Unite d States Federal Moto r Vehicle Saf ety Sta n-
dard 208 as applicable at the time your vehic le was manufactured .
The fron t Advanced Airbag System supplements the safety belts to
provide additional protection for the driver's and front passenger's
heads and upper bodies in fronta l crashes. The airbags inflate only
in fr ontal impac t s when t he vehic le dece leration is high enoug h.
The front Advanced Airbag System for the front seat occupants is
not a subst it ute for your safet y belts . Rathe r, it is part of the overall
occupant restraint syst em in your vehicle . Always remember that
th e air bag system can only help t o protect you, if you are sit ting
upright, wearing your safety belt and wearing it proper ly. This is why
you and your passenge rs must always be pro perly rest rained, not
j ust because the law requi res you to be.
The Advanced Airbag System in your vehic le has been certified to
meet t he " low risk" requ iremen t s for 3 an d 6 yea r-old ch ildren on t he
passenger side and very small adults on the driver side. The low risk
deployme nt cr iter ia are int ended to help reduce th e risk of inju ry
through interaction with the front airbag that can occur, for
exam ple, by being t oo close to the steering wheel and instr ument
panel whe n the airbag inflates .
In addition, the system has been certified to comply with the
"suppress ion" requ irements of t he Safety Standar d, to tu rn off t he
front airbag for infants 12 months old and younger who are
restrained on th e fr on t passenger seat in child restrain ts th at are
listed in the Standard~
page 191, "Child restraints and Advanced
Airbags".
"Suppress ion" requires th e front airba g on the passenger side to be
turned off if:
• a child up t o about one year of age is rest rained on the front
passenger seat in one of the rear-facing or forward -facing infant
restr aints listed in Federa l Moto r Vehicl e Safety Standa rd 208 w ith
which the Advanced Air bag System in your vehic le was certified. For .,
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