Airbag System - Pontiac Torrent 2009 Owner's Manual

Airbag System

Your vehicle has the following airbags:
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A frontal airbag for the driver.
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A frontal airbag for the right front passenger.
Your vehicle may have the following airbags:
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A roof-rail airbag for the driver and the passenger
seated directly behind the driver.
•
A roof-rail airbag for the right front passenger and
the passenger seated directly behind that
passenger.
All of the airbags in your vehicle will have the word
AIRBAG embossed in the trim or on an attached label
near the deployment opening.
For frontal airbags, the word AIRBAG will appear on the
middle part of the steering wheel for the driver and
on the instrument panel for the right front passenger.
With roof-rail airbags, the word AIRBAG will appear
along the headliner or trim.
Even if you do not have a right front passenger seat in
your vehicle there is still an active frontal airbag in
the right side of the instrument panel. Do not place cargo
in front of this airbag.
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CAUTION:
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Be sure that cargo is not near an airbag. In a crash,
an inflating airbag might force that object toward a
person. This could cause severe injury or even
death. Secure objects away from the area in which
an airbag would inflate. For more information, see
Where Are the Airbags? on page 1-61 and Loading
the Vehicle on page 4-20.
Airbags are designed to supplement the protection
provided by safety belts. Even though today's airbags
are also designed to help reduce the risk of injury
from the force of an inflating bag, all airbags must inflate
very quickly to do their job.