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Airbag Systems
This part explains the air bag systems.
Your vehicle has a frontal air bag for the driver and
another frontal air bag for the right front passenger. Your
vehicle may also have roof mounted side impact air
bags. Roof mounted side impact air bags are available
for the driver and the passenger seated directly
behind the driver and for the right front passenger and
the passenger seated directly behind that passenger.
If your vehicle has side impact air bags, the words
AIR BAG will appear on the air bag covering on
the ceiling near the driver’s and right front passenger’s
window.
Frontal air bags are designed to help reduce the risk
of injury from the force of an inflating frontal 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 systems:
{CAUTION:
You can be severely injured or killed in a crash
if you are not wearing your safety belt — even if
you have airbags. Wearing your safety belt
during a crash helps reduce your chance of
hitting things inside the vehicle or being ejected
from it. Airbags are “supplemental restraints” to
the safety belts. All airbags are designed to
work with safety belts but do not replace them.
Frontal airbags for the driver and right front
passenger are designed to deploy only in
moderate to severe frontal and near frontal
crashes. They are not designed to inflate in
rollover, rear or low-speed frontal crashes,
or in many side crashes. And, for some
unrestrained occupants, frontal airbags
may provide less protection in frontal
crashes than more forceful airbags have
provided in the past. The roof-mounted
side impact airbags are designed to inflate
only in moderate to severe crashes where
something hits the side of your vehicle.
CAUTION: (Continued)
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