Knowing Your Vehicle
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What Your Air Bag System Does Not Do
The air bag system is designed to supplement or
add to the protection offered by the safety belt
system. It is not a substitute for the safety belt.
Why Didn’t My Air Bag Go Off in a Collision?
There are many types of accidents in which the air
bag would not be expected to provide additional
protection. These include side or rear impacts,
rollovers, and second or third collisions in multiple-
impact accidents, as well as low speed impacts.
However, the side curtain airbag can provide addi-
tional protection in certain side impact collisions.
Remember, the air bags are only designed to
inflate when the impact would throw the occupant
into the air bags - generally from an area a little to
the left to a little to the right of straight ahead.
In other words, just because your vehicle is
damaged and even if it is totally unusable, don’t be
surprised that the air bags did not inflate.
AIR BAG - SUPPLEMENTAL
RESTRAINT SYSTEM
What Your Air Bag System Does
Your vehicle is equipped with a dual Supplemental
Restraint System (SRS), which includes an airbag
for the driver, another airbag for the front seat
passenger. The airbag for the driver is in the steer-
ing wheel and is designed to help restrain the
forward movement of the driver head and chest in
certain frontal collisions. The passenger airbag is
designed to help restrain the forward movement of
the passenger head and chest in certain frontal
collisions.
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