Supplemental Restraint
System
(SRS)
This part explains the Supplemental Restraint System
(SRS)
or air bag system.
Your vehicle has air bags
-
one air bag for the driver
and another air bag for the right front passenger.
Frontal air bags are designed
to
help reduce the risk of
injury from the force of an inflating air bag. But these
air bags must inflate very quickly
to
do their job
and comply with federal regulations.
Here are the most important
things
to
know about
the
air bag system:
You can be severely injured or killed in a crash
~
if you aren’t wearing your safety belt
-
even if
you have air bags. Wearing your safety belt
i
during a crash helps reduce your chance of
hitting things inside the vehicle or being ejected
from
it.
Air bags are designed to workwith
safety belts, but don’t replace them. Airbags are
designed to deploy only
in
moderate to severe
frontal and near frontal crashes. They aren’t
designed to inflate at all
in
rollover, rear or
low-speed frontal crashes, or in many side
crashes. And, for some unrestrained occupants,
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.
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