Essential
Safety Equipment
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WARNING
Passenger Seated and Restrained:
If
a passenger is not properly seated
and restrained, an inflating air
bag
could cause a
serious injury or
death.
WARNING
Rear-Facing Child Restraint:
When a rear-facing child restraint
is installed on the passenger seat
and the passenger side air bag de-
activation switch is not in the OFF
position, it is extremely dangerous.
In an accident, the air bag could
inflate
and cause serious injuries or
even death to the child in the
rear-facing child restraint. When
first installing a rear-facing child
restraint
until it is removed, always
set and leave the passenger side air
bag
deactivation switch in the
OFF
position.
J How
the Air Bag W
orks
When air bag crash sensors detect a
greater than moderate frontal impact
(more
severe than hitting a parked vehi-
cle of similar size and weight head-on
at
about 28 mph [45 km/h]), an electrical
current
is sent to the
inflator and nitrogen
gas is produced to inflate the air bag.
After the inflation, the bag quickly
deflates.
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