Occupant Safety - Mercedes-Benz G-Class G461 Owner's Manual

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Occupant safety

Occupant safety
Restraint systems
This section will familiarise you with the
most important features of the restraint
systems in your vehicle.
In the event of an accident, your vehicle
may collide with another object, e.g. an-
other vehicle. This may result in rapid ac-
celeration or deceleration of your vehicle.
During this acceleration or deceleration,
the vehicle occupants will be moved to-
wards the force acting on the vehicle.
There is therefore the risk of vehicle occu-
pants injuring themselves on the vehicle
interior or on parts of the vehicle. Mutually
complementary restraint systems – in par-
ticular seat belts, supplemented where
necessary by airbags – should minimise
the resulting risk of injury.
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However, seat belts and airbags are gener-
ally unable to prevent injuries caused by
objects penetrating the vehicle from the
outside.
The most important restraint systems are:
Seat belts
Restraint systems for children, as they
are the most effective means of re-
straining occupant movement in the
event of an accident
Additional protection is provided by the:
SRS system (Supplemental Restraint
System), comprising:
An airbag
A roll-over bar
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An airbag increases the degree of protection
for vehicle occupants wearing a seat belt and is
therefore to be considered only as an additional
restraint. Airbags in no way replace the require-
ment for all vehicle occupants to wear their seat
belt correctly at all times. This is because on the
one hand, an airbag is not deployed in all types
of accident, as in some situations airbag deploy-
ment would not increase the protection afforded
to vehicle occupants, provided they are wearing
the seat belts correctly. On the other hand, air-
bag deployment only increases protection for
the occupant if the seat belt is correctly fastened
because:
the belt helps to hold the vehicle occupant in
the best position in relation to the airbag
it can significantly reduce the movement of
the vehicle occupant towards the force of
the impact, e.g. in the event of a head-on col-
lision, and therefore reduce the risk of injury