GMC 1998 Savana Van Owner's Manual page 35

If it doesn't say AIR BAG on the middle part of the
steering wheel, your vehicle doesn't have air bags.
If your vehicle has an air bag for the driver, the air bag
is a "Next Generation" reduced-force frontal air bag. If
your vehicle has an air bag for the right front passenger
and there's a label on the driver's side window, then
your vehicle has a "Next Generation" reduced-force
frontal air bag for the right front passenger. If your
vehicle has an air bag for the right front passenger but it
doesn't have a label, then the right front passenger's air
bag isn't reduced-force.
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 job and comply with
federal regulations.
Here are the most important things
to
know about the air
bag system:
I -
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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