Chevrolet 1998 Prizm Owner's Manual page 36

Here are the most important things to know about the air
bag systems:
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.
CAUTION: (Continued)
Reduced-force frontal air bags for the driver and
right front passenger 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 frontal air bags may provide less
protection in frontal crashes than more forceful
air bags have provided in the past. The side
impact air bags for the driver and right front
passenger are designed to inflate only in
moderate to severe crashes where something hits
the side of your vehicle. They aren't designed to
inflate in frontal, in rollover or in rear crashes.
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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