Chevrolet 2003 Tahoe Owner's Manual page 30

Your vehicle has a light
Why Safety Belts Work
that comes on as a
reminder to buckle
UP.
See When you ride in or on anything, you go as fast as
Safety Belt Reminder it goes.
Light on page 3-37.
In most states and in all Canadian provinces, the law
says to wear safety belts. Here's why: They work.
You never know if you'll be in a crash. If you do have a
crash, you don't know if it will be a bad one.
A few crashes are mild, and some crashes can be
so
serious that even buckled up, a person wouldn't survive.
But most crashes are in between. In many of them,
people who buckle up can survive and sometimes walk
away. Without belts they could have been badly hurt
or killed.
After more than 30 years of safety belts in vehicles, the
I
facts are clear. In most crashes buckling up does
matter
...
a lot!
Take the simplest vehicle. Suppose it's just a seat on
wheels.
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