Lancia Musa owners manual page 109

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FRONT AIRBAGS In the event of a collision, a person not wearing a seat belt may be thrown AND The car is provided with front airbags forward and con into contact with the CONTROLSfor the driver and passenger and win- bag before it has fully opened. The DASHBOARD dow bags (head protection system). It protection offered by the cushion is may be provided with optional front reduced in such a case. side bags. Front air bag may not be activated in SAFETY The front driver / passenger air bags the following situations: have been designed to protect the oc- ❒in collisions against highly de- L0C0416m cupants in the event of head-on formable objects not affecting the fig. 17 TING crashes of medium-high severity, by car front surface (e.g. bumper col- AR placing the cushion between the oc- FRONT AIR BAG ON DRIVER’S ST lision against guard rail, etc.); AND DRIVINGcupant and the steering wheel or SIDE, fig. 17 dashboard. ❒ jamming of the car underneath Front air bags are designed to protect other vehicles or protective barri- It consists of an instant-inflating cush- ers (e.g. underneath a truck or a RNING ion contained in a special recess in the A car’s occupants in front crashes and guard rail); in this case, the bags W MESSAGES centre of the steering wheel. LIGHTS ANDtherefore non-activation in other types would offer no additional protec- of collisions (side collisions, rear shunts, roll-overs, etc.) is not a system tion with respect to the seat belt malfunction. and their deployment is unneces- IN AN sary. No deployment in such cases EMERGENCYAn electronic control unit will make is consequently not the sign of a ontalthe bag inflate in the event of a fr fault. crash. The front airbags (driver and passen- The bag will inflate instantaneously placing itself between the front occu- ger) are designed and calibrated to AND CARE protect front seat occupants who are MAINTENANCEpant’s body and the structures which wearing seat belts. The volume of could cause injury. It will deflate im- front air bags at max. inflation fills mediately afterwards. most of the space between the steer- TIONS Driver and passenger front airbags are ing wheel and the driver and between TECHNICALSPECIFICA-not a replacement of but complemen- the dashboard and the passenger. tary to the belts, which you are rec- ommended to always wear, as speci- INDEX fied by law in Europe and most non- European countries. 108

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