3. Safety Operating Instructions
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3.2 Seat Belts
3.2.1 Why Wear Seat Belts
Protection from Seat Belts
In
case of crash, correctly wearing seat belts
can restrict the driver and passengers at proper
positions, reducing inertia of forward motion, to
prevent loss of control of motion and being ejected
out of the vehicle, allow the driver and passengers
to get effective protection from the airbags, and
minimize injury due to impact.
The seat belts can absorb most of the kinetic
energy resulting from a collision. In addition, the
crumple zones and other passive safety systems
can absorb the energy at the same time to reduce
the risk of injury further together with the seat belts.
Consequences Arising from not Wearing Seat
Belts
After
a collision, the occupants not wearing the
seat belts still move forward due to inertia at the
speed before the collision, but the vehicle dose not.
Thus the occupants would be seriously injured.
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