Chevrolet Beat diesel Owner's Manual page 41

Front Airbag System
The front airbag system consists of one
airbag in the steering wheel and one in
the instrument panel on the front
passenger side. These can be identified
by the word AIRBAG.
The front airbag system is triggered in
the event of an accident of a certain
severity in the depicted area. The
ignition must be on.
The forward movement of the front seat
occupants is retarded, thereby consider-
ably reducing the risk of injury to the
upper body and head.
Warning
Air bags are only a supplemental
restraint, and are most effective in
combination with safety belts.
All occupants, including the driver,
should always wear their safety belts,
whether or not an air bag is also
provided at their seating position, to
minimize the risk of severe injury or
death in the event of a crash.
• Air bags do not deploy in side or
rear collisions. Occupants not
wearing their safety belts will not
be protected by any restraint
system, resulting in severe injuries
or death in these types of
collisions.
• Occupants who are not properly
wearing their safety belts may be
thrown forward by braking before
impact, placing their bodies near
or against the air bag modules.
This can cause severe injury from
the force of an air bag's deploy-
ment.
Seats and Restraints
How Air Bags Work?
Air bags are designed to keep your
head, neck, and chest from slamming
into the instrument panel, steering
wheel or windshield in a front-end
crash. They are not designed to inflate
in rear-end or rollover crashes or in
most side-impact crashes. Your air bags
are designed to deploy in crashes that
are equivalent to, or exceed the force of
a vehicle traveling at a speed of 15 to 23
km/h (9.3 ~ 14.3 mph) crashing into a
solid immovable wall.
The air bag system activates during a
severe collision which is either frontal
or when the impact angle is up to 30°
from straight ahead.
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