Daewoo Kalos User Manual page 31

HELP YOUR AIR BAGS TO PROTECT
YOU!
Besides their lifesaving benefits, the air
bag system also poses some moderate
risks.
Because an air bag inflates with consid-
erable force, speed and suddenness, the
air bag supplemental restraint system
will be safer and more effective if the
occupants are properly positioned in the
vehicle.
SEATS AND OCCUPANT PROTECTION SYSTEMS 1–27
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WARNING
Essential Air Bag Safety Rules:
• Never place a rear-facing child
seat in the front seat.
• Children age 12 years and under
should ride in the back seat when-
ever possible.
• Always wear your safety belts,
even if your vehicle is equipped
with an air bag.
• Move your seatback rearward as
far as is comfortable and safe, tilt
the seatback slightly and sit
against the back of the seat.
• Do not place objects on, over or
near the air bag modules. They
can become projectiles during in-
flation, causing severe injury.
• Do not lean forward or rest any
part of your body on the trim cov-
ering the air bag modules.
• Tilt the steering wheel downward
while driving.
Severe injury and death can result
from failing to observe these air bag
safety rules.
Always secure any rear-facing child seat
in the back seat.
Child restraint systems in which the
child faces the rear of the seat must
never be placed in the front seat. The
deployment of an air bag risks severe
injury or death to a child in a rear-fac-
ing child seat placed in the front seat.
Children belong in the back seat.
According to accident statistics, children
age 12 years and under are safer when
properly restrained in the back seat than
in the front seat, and should ride in the
back seat whenever possible. Children
are not safer in the back seat only be-
cause of the risks of injury by air bags.
Studies have shown that children are
also safer in the back seat than in a
front seat without an air bag.