Supplemental Restraint System (Srs) - Pontiac 2003 Grand Am Owner's Manual

Supplemental Restraint
System (SRS)
This part explains the Supplemental Restraint System
(SRS) or air bag system.
Your vehicle has air bags
-
one air bag for the driver
and another air bag for the right front passenger.
Frontal air bags are designed to help reduce the risk of
injury from the force of an inflating air bag. But these
air bags must inflate very quickly to do their job
and comply with federal regulations.
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 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 or low-speed frontal
crashes, or in many side crashes. And, for
some unrestrained occupants, 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
hp!t
prnperly
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whether
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not
there's
an air bag for that person.
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