Right Front Passenger Position; Air Bag System - Chevrolet 1998 Tracker Owner's Manual

The best way to protect the fetus is to protect the
mother. When a safety belt is worn properly, it's more
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.
Right Front Passenger Position
To learn how to wear the right front passenger's safety belt
properly, see "Driver Position" earlier in this section.
The right front passenger's safety belt works the same
way as the driver's safety belt
--
except for one thing. If
you ever pull the shoulder portion of the belt out all the
way, you will engage the child restraint locking feature.
If this happens, just let the belt go back all the way and
start again.
Air Bag System
This part explains the air bag system.
Your vehicle has two air bags
--
one air bag for the
driver and another air bag for the right front passenger.
The air bag in your vehicle may be "Next Generation"
reduced-force frontal ak bags. If your vehicle has a
label on the driver's door window, then your vehicle has
reduced-force frontal air bags. If your vehicle doesn't
have a label, then the air bags in your vehicle aren't
reduced-force.
Here are the most important things to know about the
air
bag system:
You can
be severely injured or killed in a crash if
you aren't wearing your safety belt
--
even i f you
have air bags. Wearing your safety belt during a
crash helps reduce your chance of bitting
things
inside the vehicle or being ejected from it. Air
bags
--
even reduced-force air bags
--
are
"supplemental restraints" to the safety belts. All air
bags
--
even reduced-force air bags
--
are designed
to work with safety belts, but don't replace them.
Air bags are designed to work only in moderate to
severe crashes where the front of your vehicle hits
something. They aren't designed to Mate at
all
in
rollover, rear, side or low-speed frontal crashes.
And, for unrestrained occupants, reduced-force air
bags may provide less protection in frontal crashes
than more forcefid air bags have provided in the
past. Everyone in your vehicle should wear a safety
belt properly
--
whether or not there's an air bag
for that person.
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