Correct Seating Position - Chevrolet Sail Diesel Owner's Manual

Important Note
Remember that rear-facing child seats
must be installed on rear seats. Children
should use rear-facing safety seats. Do
not install these on front seats. If
installed on front seats, deployment of
the airbag may cause severe injury or
even death.
Children Should Sit On Rear
Seats
According to statistics on accidents,
12-year-old or younger children are
safer when sitting on rear seats with
proper protective devices than on front
seats. Children should always sit on
rear seats whenever possible.
The reason is not only that children may
be injured by airbags, but research also
suggests that children are safer in rear
seats even if there are no front airbags.

Correct Seating Position

Adults or teenagers sitting on the driver
seat or the passenger seat should also sit
in a correct manner to ensure safe and
effective function of airbags.
The best seating posture for adults and
teenagers is as shown:
(Right posture)
Always fasten safety belts.
—
All passengers including the driver
should always fasten safety belts so
that the risk of injury during
collisions can be minimized.
Airbags normally do not inflate on
a rear or side impact. In these kinds
of collisions, passengers who do not
wear safety belts will not be
protected by protective devices,
thus resulting in casualties.
Before collision, braking may
cause passengers who are not
wearing safety belts correctly to
move forward, bringing their
bodies close to or in contact with the
airbag assembly. The deployment
of the airbags may cause injuries or
deaths.
— Adjust your seatback to a com-
fortable and safe position.
Keeping your seat away from the air
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bag assembly will not reduce the pro-
tective effectiveness of airbag. The
farther you sit from airbag assembly,
the lesser the chance of injury when
the airbag inflates suddenly. But
remember not to move the driver's
seatback too far away to enable com-
fortable operation of the steering
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