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. .
or
the safety belts!
With safety
belts, you slow down
as
the vehicle does.
You
get more time to stop.
You
stop over
more
distance,
and your strongest bones take the forces. That's why
safety
belts
make
such good sense.
@
Won't I be trapped in the vehicle after an
.accident
if I'm,
weaning
a.safety belt?
At
You
could be
--
whether
you're
wearing a safety
belt or not:But
you
can
unbuckle
a safety.beB,
even
if
you're upside
down. And your chance of
being
conscious
during and after
an
accident,
so
you can
unbuckle
and
get out, is much greater if
you are .belted.
Q . '
I f
my vehicle has air bags, why should I have to
A:
Air bags
are
in many vehicles today and will
be in most of them in the future. But they
are
supplemental systems only; so they work with
safety belts
--
not instead of them. Every air bag
system ever offered for sale has required the use of
safety belts.
Even if you're in a vehicle that has a i r
bags, you still have to buckle up
to get
the most
protection. That's tme not only in frontal collisions,
but especially in side
and
other collisions.
wear
safety- belts?
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