Pontiac Sunfire owners manual page 34

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The best way to protect the fetus is to protect theHere are the most important things to know about the air mother. When a safety belt is worn properly, it’s morebag system: likely that the fetus won’t be hurt in a crash. For pregnant women, as for anyone, the key to making safety belts effective is wearing them properly.CAUTION: Right Front Passenger PositionYou can be severely injured or killed in a crash if To learn how to wear the right front passenger’s safety beltyou aren’t wearing your safety belt -- even if you properly, see “Driver Position” earlier in this section.have air bags. Wearing your safety belt during a The right front passenger’s safety belt works the samecrash helps reduce your chance of hitting things way as the driver’s safety belt -- except for one thing. Ifinside the vehicle or being ejected from it. Air you ever pull the shoulder portion of the belt out all thebags are “supplemental restraints” to the safety way, you will engage the child restraint locking feature.belts. All air bags are designed to work with If this happens, just let the belt go back all the way andsafety belts, but don’t replace them. Air bags are start again. designed to work only in moderate to severe Supplemental Restraint System (SRS)crashes where the front of your vehicle hits This part explains the Supplemental Restraint System (SRS)something. They aren’t designed to inflate at all or air bag system. in rollover, rear, side or low-speed frontal Your vehicle has air bags -- one air bag for the drivercrashes. And, for unrestrained occupants, air and another air bag for the right front passenger.bags may provide less protection in frontal crashes than more forceful air bags have Frontal air bags are designed to help reduce the risk ofprovided in the past. Everyone in your vehicle injury from the force of an inflating air bag. But theseshould wear a safety belt properly -- whether or air bags must inflate very quickly to do their job andnot there’s an air bag for that person. comply with federal regulations. 1-22

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