Questions Many People Ask About Safety Belts - GMC 1999 Sierra 1500 Pickup Owner's Manual

Seats & Safety Belts
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or the safety belts!
With safety belts, you slow down as the vehicle does. You get more time to
stop. You stop over more distance, and your strongest bones take the forces.
That's why safety belts make such good sense.
Here Are Questions Many People Ask About Safety
Belts-and the Answers
Q:
Won't I be trapped in the vehicle after
an accident if I'm wearing a
safety belt?
A: You could be-whether you're wearing a safety belt or not. But you can
easily unbuckle a safety belt, even if you're upside down. And your chance of
being conscious during and after an accident,
so you can unbuckle and get
out, is much greater if you are belted.
Q: Why don't they just put in air bags so people won't have to wear
safety belts?
A: "Air bags," or Supplemental Inflatable Restraint systems, are in some
vehicles today and will be in more of them in the future. But they are
supplemental systems only-so they work with safety belts, not instead of
them. Every "air bag" system ever offered for sale has required the use of
safety belts. Even if you're in a vehicle that has "air bags," you still have to
buckle up to get the most protection. That's true not only in frontal collisions,
but especially in side and other collisions.
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