Air Bag Systems - Buick 2003 Century Owner's Manual

Air Bag Systems
This part explains the frontal and side impact air bag
systems.
Your vehicle has air bags
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a frontal air bag for the
driver and another frontal air bag for the right front
passenger. Your vehicle may also have a side impact
air bag for the driver. If your vehicle has a side
impact air bag for the driver it will say AIR BAG on the
air bag covering on the side of the driver's seatback
closest to the door.
Frontal air bags are
designed to help reduce
the risk sf injury from
the force of an inflating
frontal air bag. But
these air bags must inflate
very quickly to do their
job and comply with federal
regulations.
Here are the most important things to know about the
air bag systems:
You can be seve
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a crash
if you aren't wearing your safety belt, even if
you have air bags. Wearing your safety belt
during a crash helps reduce your chance of
hitting things inside the vehicle or being ejected
from it. Air bags are designed to work with
safety belts but don't replace them.
Frontal air bags for the driver and right front
passenger are designed to deploy only in
moderate to severe frontal and near frontal
crashes. They aren't designed to inflate at all in
rollover, rear or low-speed frontal crashes,
or
in
many side crashes. And, for some unrestrained
occupants, frontal
air
bags
may providp
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protection in frontal crashes than more forceful
air bags have provided in the past.
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