Oldsmobile 1998 Intrigue Owner's Manual page 28

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Here are the most important things to know about the
air
bag system:
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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CAUTION:
Air bags inflate with great force, faster than the
blink of an eye. If you're too close to an inflating
air bag, it could seriously injure you. This is true
even with reduced-force frontal air bags. Safety
belts help keep you in position before and during
a crash. Always wear your safety belt, even with
reduced-force air bags. The driver should sit as
far back as possible while still maintaining
control of the vehicle.
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