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WARNING
Improperly positioned
safety
belts
can cause serious
personal
injury in
an accident.
•
Expectant mothers must
always wear the
lap portion of the
safety
belt as low as possible across the pelvis and below the
rounding of the
abdomen
.
•
Always
read and
heed all WARNINGS and other important infor
-
mation
=>
&
in
"Fastening safety belts" on
page 131.
•
Unfastening
safety
belts
Unbuckle the safety belt with the red release button only
after the vehicle has stopped.
Fig.
111
Releasing the
tongue from
the buckle
-
Push the red release button on the buckle
=>
fig. 111. The
belt tongue will spring out of the buckle
=>
&
.
-
Let the belt wind up on
the
retractor
as
you guide
the
belt
tongue to its stowed position.
&
WARNING
Never unfasten
safety belt while
the
vehicle is
moving
.
Doing
so
will increase your risk of being injured
or
killed.
•
Improperly
worn
safety
belts
Incorrectly positioned safety belts can cause severe inju-
ries.
Wearing safety
belts
improperly
can cause serious injury or
death. Safety belts can only work when they are correctly
positioned on the
body
.
Improper seating positions reduce
the effectiveness of safety
belts
and will even
increase
the
risk of injury and
death
by moving the safety belt to critical
areas of the body. Improper seating positions also increase
the risk of serious
injury
and death when an airbag deploys
and strikes an occupant who is not
in
the
correct
seating
position
.
A driver
is
responsible for the safety
of
all
vehic
le
occupants and especially
for
children. Therefore
:
-
Never permit anyone to assume an
incorrect
sitting posi-
tion in
the
vehicle while traveling=>
&
.
&
WARNING
Improperly
worn
safety
belts increase the risk of
serious
personal
injury
and
death
whenever
a
vehicle
is being used.
•
Always
make sure
that
all
vehicle
occupants
are correctly
restrained
and stay
in a
correct seating
position
whenever
the
vehicle
is being
used.
•
Always read
and
heed
all
WARNINGS
and
other
important infor-
mation
=>
page
130.
•
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