Chevrolet 2001 Monte Carlo Owner's Manual page 36

Here are the most important things to know about the air
bag systems:
CAUTION:
You can be severely injured or killed in a crash if
you aren't wearing your safety belt
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 are designed to work with
safety belts but don't replace them.
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even if you
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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
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rollover, rear, side or low
And, for unrestrained occupants, frontal air bags
may provide less protection in frontal crashes than
more forceful air bags have provided in the past.
The side impact air bag for the driver is designed
to inflate only in moderate to severe crashes where
something hits the driver's side of the vehicle. It
isn't designed to inflate in frontal, in rollover or in
rear crashes. Everyone in your vehicle should wear
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a safety belt properly whether or not there's an
air bag for that person.
speed frontal crashes.