Protecting Adults And Teens - Honda 2004 Accord Online Reference Owner's Manual

The rest of this section gives more
detailed information about how you
can maximize your safety.
Remember, however, that no safety
system can prevent all injuries or
deaths that can occur in severe
crashes, even when seat belts are
properly worn and the airbags deploy.
Introduction
The following pages provide
instructions on how to properly
protect the driver, adult passengers,
and teenage children who are large
enough and mature enough to ride in
the front. See pages 34
important guidelines on how to
properly protect infants, small
children, and larger children who
ride in your vehicle.
1. Close and Lock the Doors
After everyone has entered the car,
be sure the doors are closed and
locked.

Protecting Adults and Teens

Your vehicle has a door monitor light
on the instrument panel to indicate
when a specific door is not tightly
closed.
Locking the doors reduces the
55 for chance of someone being thrown out
of the vehicle during a crash, and it
helps prevent passengers from
accidentally opening a door and
falling out.
Locking the doors also helps prevent
an outsider from unexpectedly
opening a door when you come to a
stop.
See page
doors, and page
monitor light works.
Driver and Passenger Safety
for how to lock the
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for how the
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