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Safety Belts: They’re for Everyone
This part of the manual tells you how to use safety belts properly. It also
tells you some things you should not do with safety belts.
And it explains the Supplemental Inflatable Restraint, or “air bag” system.
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Your vehicle has a light that comes
on
as a reminder to buckle up. (See
“Safety Belt Reminder Light” in
the
Index.)
In many states and Canadian provinces, the law says to wear safety belts.
Here’s why:
They
work.
You never know if you’ll be in a crash. If you do have a crash, you don’t
know if it will be a bad one.
A few crashes
are
mild, and some crashes can be
so
serious that even
buckled up
a
person wouldn’t survive.
But
most crashes are in between. In
many of them, people who buckle up can survive and sometimes walk away.
Without belts they could have been badly hurt or killed.
After more than
25
years
of
safety belts in vehicles, the facts are clear. In
most crashes buckling up does matter
...
a lot!
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