Safety Belts - Audi TT Coupe 2016 Owner's Manual

S a fety belts
Safety belts
General notes
Always wear safety belts!
Wearing safety belts correctly saves lives!
This chapter explains why safety belts are neces-
sary, how they work and how to adjust and wear
them correctly.
... Read all the information that follows and heed
all of the instructions and WARNINGS.
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WARNING
Not wearing safety belts or wearing them im-
properly increases the risk of serious personal
injury and death.
- Safety belts are the s ingle most effective
means ava ilable to reduce the risk of serious
injury and death in automobile accidents.
For your protection and that of your passen-
gers, always correctly wea r safety belts
when the vehicle is moving.
- Pregnant women, inju red, o r physically im-
paired persons must a lso use safety belts.
Like all vehicle occupants, they are more
likely t o be serious ly injured if t hey do not
wea r safety belts. The best way to protect a
fetus is to protect the mother - throughout
the entire pregnancy.
Number of seats
Your Aud i TI Coupe has two seating positions in
the front and two height-limited seating posi-
tions in the rear. Each seating position has a safe-
ty belt. The rear seat a rea in your Audi TT Coupe
does not have enough room fo r passengers of all
sizes. For reasons of safety, no person taller than
4 ft 9 in (S 7 i n/1.45 m) should ever ride in the
rear seat area.
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WARNING
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Not wearing safety belts or wearing them im-
properly increases the risk of serious personal
injury and death.
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- Never strap more than one person, includ-
ing small children, into any belt. It is espe-
cially dangerous to place a safety belt over a
child sitting on your lap .
- Never let more people ride in the vehicle
than there are safety belts available.
- Be sure everyone riding in the vehicle is
properly restrained with a separate safety
belt o r ch ild restraint.
- Persons taller than 4 ft 9 in (57 in/1.45 m)
as well as children in booster seats who are
too close to the rea r window and roof ca n
suffer severe head and neck injuries when
the rea r lid is closed or in a crash .
- The minimum clearance between the pas-
senger's heads and the rear window must
never - unde r any circumstances - be less
that l in (2.5 cm) when t he passengers sit
fu lly upright.
- Always make sure that rear seat passengers
cannot be struck when the rear lid is closed.
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Safety belt warning light
Your vehicle has a warning system for the driver
and front seat passenger to remind you about
the importance of buckling up.
Fig. 145 Safety belt warn ing lig ht in the instru ment clus-
ter - enla rged
Before driving off, always:
... Fasten your safety belt and make sure you wear
it properly.
... Make sure that you r passengers a lso bu ckle up
and properly wear t he ir safety belts.
... Protect chi ld ren with a child restraint system
appropriate for the size and age.