Kia Rio 2006 Owner's Manual page 75

Knowing Your Vehicle Knowing Your Vehicle
The importance of using safety belts
There are four very important reasons to use safety
belts even with an air bag supplemental restraint
system. They:
• help keep you in the proper position (away from the
air bag) when it inflates.
• reduce the risk of harm in rollover, side impact or
rear impact collisions, because an air bag is not
designed to inflate in such situations and even a
side curtain air bag is designed to inflate only in
certain side impact collisions.
• reduce the risk of harm in frontal or side collisions
which are not severe enough to actuate the air bag
supplemental restraint system.
• reduce the risk of being thrown from your vehicle.
✽ ✽ NOTICE
Your vehicle's Supplemental Restraint System
Control Module is equipped with a recording
device that may record the use or status of the
seat belt restraint system by the driver and
front passenger in certain collisions.
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WARNING - Air bags & safety belts
• Even in vehicles with air bags, you and
your passengers must always wear the
safety belts provided in order to mini-
mize the risk and severity of injury in the
event of a collision or rollover.
• Always wear your safety belt. It can help
keep you away from the air bags during
heavy braking just before a collision. It
may also reduce the risk of occupant
ejection.
• If vehicle occupants are not wearing their
seatbelts properly, or are not seated
correctly, serious injury or death could
occur.
• Driver's and front passenger's air bag
are designed to inflate only in certain
frontal collisions, and curtain air bags
are designed to inflate in certain side
impacts.
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