Safety features of your vehicle
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Air bag - supplemental restraint system
Side and curtain air bags
* The actual air bags in the vehicle may
differ from the illustration.
Side and curtain air bags are designed
to inflate when an impact is detected by
side collision sensors depending on the
strength, speed or angles of impact
resulting from a side impact collision.
Although the front air bags (driver’s and
front passenger’s air bags) are designed
to inflate only in frontal collisions, they
also may inflate in other types of colli
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sions if the front impact sensors detect a
sufficient impact. Side air bags (side
and/or curtain air bags) are designed to
inflate only in side impact collisions, but
they may inflate in other collisions if the
side impact sensors detect a sufficient
impact.
If the vehicle chassis is impacted by
bumps or objects on unpaved roads or
sidewalks, air bags may deploy. Drive
carefully on unpaved roads or on sur
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faces not designed for vehicle traffic to
prevent unintended air bag deployment.
If equipped with rollover sensor
Also, the side and curtain air bags are
designed to inflate when a rollover is
detected by a rollover sensor.
Air bag non-inflation conditions
僅 In certain low-speed collisions the air
bags may not deploy. The air bags are
designed not to deploy in such cases
because they may not provide bene
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fits beyond the protection of the seat
belts in such collisions.
僅 Air bags are not designed to inflate in
rear collisions, because occupants are
moved backward by the force of the
impact. In this case, inflated air bags
would not be able to provide any
additional benefit.
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