Volvo C70 Brochure page 15

THE ADVANCED SAFETY SYSTEMS IN A VOLVO WORK TOGETHER TO HELP CREATE A SAFE
ENVIRONMENT FOR YOU AND YOUR PASSENGERS. IT IS THE INTELLIGENT INTERACTION BETWEEN
THE CAR'S VARIOUS ADVANCED SAFETY SYSTEMS, NOT THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUAL SAFETY
COMPONENTS, THAT DETERMINES JUST HOW SAFE A CAR IS.
PERSONAL SECURITY
An electronic immobiliser and door
locks that withstand most break-in
attempts help protect against theft.
Home Safe lighting lights up your
path from the car at the touch of the
headlamp stalk. A remotely controlled
alarm is available as an option.
CRUMPLE ZONES
The front and rear crumple zones
dissipate and distribute incoming
collision forces so as to help reduce
the effects on the car's occupants.
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AIRBAGS
The driver and passenger* airbags
interact with the front safety belts,
pre-tensioners and force limiters to
help protect the head, face and chest
in a frontal or offset impact.
* The car can also be ordered without a
passenger airbag.
ENERGY-ABSORBING INTERIOR
All the panels and the door sides are
padded with energy-absorbing materials
to help reduce the risk of injury to the
car's occupants.
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ROPS
WHIPS (ROLL-OVER PROTECTION SYSTEM)
If the car rolls over, an electronic sensor
(WHIPLASH PROTECTION SYSTEM)
WHIPS helps reduce the risk of triggers the safety hoops concealed in
whiplash injury by cradling the spine the rear bodywork along with the safety
and neck in a controlled way if the car belt pre-tensioners for all four seats.
is hit from behind at low speeds. It is The rear safety hoops act together with
built into the front seats and activated the sturdily reinforced windscreen frame
by a sufficiently severe impact. to serve as a roll-over cage.
SIPS CHILD SAFETY
(SIDE-IMPACT PROTECTION SYSTEM) Just about everything that makes your
SIPS distributes crash forces in a Volvo safe for adults also makes it safe
side impact across a larger part of the for children. However, children up to
car's body so as to help reduce the the age of three travel most safely in
strain on the occupants. Reinforced a rearward-facing child seat. Larger
with extremely strong doors and a children sit most safely if they sit on
robust horseshoe-like structure in a booster cushion and are secured
the rear. The front seat side airbags with a safety belt.
contribute to head and chest protec-
tion for the front seat occupants.
SAFETY CAGE
The sturdy safety cage surrounds all
the car's occupants and is dimensioned
to help withstand severe crash forces.
The rear safety hoops act together with
the sturdily anchored windscreen frame
to help protect in a roll-over accident.
SAFETY BELTS WITH
PRE-TENSIONERS
All the seats have head restraints and
three-point safety belts with pre-ten-
sioners. In a crash, the safety belt is
tensioned across the body to help
provide maximum protection. The front
safety belts then slacken slightly so
that the occupants are restrained
by the airbags in a more controlled
manner.
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