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The best
way
to protect the fetus is
to
protect the
mother. When a safety belt
is
worn properly, it's more
likely that the fetus won't be hurt in a crash. For
pregnant women, as for anyone, the key to making
safety belts effective is wearing them properly.
Right Front Passenger Position
The right front passenger's safety belt works the same
way
as
the driver's safety belt. See "Driver Position"
earlier in this section.
Supplemental Restraint System (SRS)
This part explains the Supplemental Restraint System
(SRS) or air bag system.
Your vehicle has "Next Generation" reduced-force
frontal air bags -- one air bag for the driver and another
for the right front passenger.
Reduced-force frontal air bags are designed to help
reduce the risk of injury from the force of an inflating
air bag. But even these air bags must inflate very
quickly if they are to do their jobs and comply with
federal regulations.
Here are the most important things to know about the air
bag system:
You
can
be severely injured or killed in 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 "supplemental restraints" to the safety belts.
All air bags
--
even reduced-force air bags
--
are
designed to work with safety belts, but don't
replace them. Air bags
are
designed to work only
in moderate to severe crashes where the
front of
your vehicle hits something. They aren't designed
to inflate at
all
in rollover, rear, side or low-speed
frontal crashes. And, for unrestrained occupants,
reduced-force air bags may provide less protection
in frontal crashes than more forceful air bags have
provided in the past. Everyone in your vehicle
should wear a safety belt properly
--
whether or
not there's an air bag for that person.
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