Knowing Your Vehicle
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The Importance of the Passenger Being
Properly Seated
The front seat passenger’s air bag is much larger
than the steering wheel air bag and inflates with
considerably more force. It can seriously hurt or kill
a passenger who is not in the proper position and
wearing the safety belt properly. The front passen-
ger should always move their seat as far back as
practical and sit back in their seat.
It is essential that the front passenger always wear
their safety belt, even when the vehicle is moving in
a parking lot or up a driveway into a garage. The
reason for this is that in most frontal impacts, the
occupants are thrown forward. If the right front
passenger is not wearing their safety belt, they will
be directly in front of the storage compartment
when inflation occurs. In that situation, serious
injury or death is possible.
WARNING - Right Front Seat
Pre-impact braking could throw an
unbelted passenger toward or onto the air
bag storage compartment. In the collision,
the air bag would rapidly inflate and could
severely injure or kill the unbelted occu-
pant.
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