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Important Safety Precautions
You'll find many safety
Be Aware of Airbag Hazards
While airbags can save lives, they
can cause serious or fatal injuries to
occupants who sit too close to them,
or are not properly restrained.
Infants, young children, and short
adults are at the greatest risk. Be
sure to follow all instructions and
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Control Your Speed
recommendations throughout this
section, and throughout this manual.
The recommendations on this page
are the ones we consider to be the
most important.
Excessive speed is a major factor in
crash injuries and deaths. Generally,
the higher the speed the greater the
risk, but serious accidents can also
occur at lower speeds. Never drive
faster than is safe for current
conditions, regardless of the
Always Wear Your Seat Belt
A seat belt is your best protection in
all types of collisions. Airbags
supplement seat belts, but airbags
are designed to inflate only in a
moderate to severe frontal collision.
So even though your vehicle is
equipped with airbags, make sure
you and your passengers always
wear your seat belts, and wear them
properly. (See page 15 .)
maximum speed posted.
Keep Your Vehicle in Safe
Condition
Having a tire blowout or a
mechanical failure can be extremely
hazardous. To reduce the possibility
of such problems, check your tire
pressures and condition frequently,
and perform all regularly scheduled
maintenance. (See page 188 .)
Don't Drink and Drive
Alcohol and driving don't mix. Even
one drink can reduce your ability to
respond to changing conditions, and
your reaction time gets worse with
every additional drink. So don't drink
and drive, and don't let your friends
drink and drive, either.
Restrain All Children
Children are safest when they are
properly restrained in the back seat,
not the front seat. A child who is too
small for a seat belt must be properly
restrained in a child safety seat. (See
page 21.)
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Your Vehicle's Safety Features
Your vehicle is equipped with many
features that work together to
protect you and your passengers
during a crash.
Some safety features do not require
any action on your part. These
include a strong steel framework
that forms a safety cage around the
passenger compartment; front and
rear crush zones that are designed to
crumple and absorb energy during a
crash; a collapsible steering column;
and seat belt tensioners that
automatically tighten the front seat
belts in the event of a crash.
These safety features are designed
to reduce the severity of injuries in a
crash. However, you and your
passengers can't take full advantage
of these safety features unless you
remain sitting in a proper position
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properly. In fact, some safety
(1) Safety Cage
(2) Crush Zones
(3) Seats & Seat-Backs
(4) Head Restraints
(5) Collapsible Steering Column
(6) Seat Belts
(7) Airbags
(8) Seat Belt Tensioners
(9) Door Locks
features can contribute to injuries if
they are not used properly.
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Seat Belts
wear seat belts.
can only be helpful in a moderate
to severe frontal collision.
For your safety, and the safety of
your passengers, your vehicle is
equipped with seat belts in all seating
positions.
Help keep you from being thrown
against the inside of the vehicle
and against other occupants.
Not wearing a seat belt properly
increases the chance of serious
injury or death in a crash, even
if you have airbags.
Your seat belt system also
includes a light on the
instrument panel to remind you and
your passengers to fasten your seat
belts.
Keep you from being thrown out
of the vehicle.
Be sure you and your
passengers always wear seat
belts and wear them properly.
Help keep you in a good position
should the airbags ever deploy. A
good position reduces the risk of
injury from an inflating airbag, and
allows you to get the best
Why Wear Seat Belts
Seat belts are the single most
effective safety device for adults and
larger children. (Infants and smaller
children must be properly restrained
in child seats.)
When properly worn, seat belts:
advantage from the airbag.
Keep you connected to the vehicle
so you can take advantage of the
vehicle's built-in safety features.
Of course, seat belts cannot
completely protect you in every
crash. But in most cases, seat belts
can reduce your risk of serious
injury.
Not wearing a seat belt properly
increases the chance of serious
injury or death in a crash, even
though your vehicle has airbags.
Help protect you in almost every
type of crash, including side and
rear impacts and rollovers. In a
rollover crash, an unbelted person
is more likely to die than a person
wearing a seat belt. Your airbag
What you should do: Always wear
your seat belt, and make sure you
wear it properly.
In addition, most states and all
Canadian provinces require you to
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not wearing seat belts, are not
wearing them properly, are sitting
too close to the airbag, or are not
sitting in a proper position. Infants
and small children are at an even
greater risk of injury or death.
Airbags
The most important things you need
to know about your airbags are:
Airbags do not replace seat belts.
The seat belts are the occupants'
primary protection in all types of
collisions. The airbags supplement
the seat belts by providing extra
protection for the head and chest
of each front seat occupant in a
moderate to severe frontal
Whatyoushoulddo: Alwayswear
your seat belt properly, and sit
upright and as far back as possible
from the steering wheel or
dashboard.
collision.
Airbags offer no protection in side
impacts, rear impacts, rollovers,
or minor collisions. Airbags are
designed to deploy only during a
moderate to severe frontal
collision.
Your vehicle has a Supplemental
Restraint System (SRS) with frontal
airbags to help protect the driver and
a front seat passenger.
This system also includes
SRS
instrument panel to alert you to a
possible problem with the system.
an indicator light on the
Airbags can pose serious hazards.
To do their job, airbags must
inflate with tremendous force and
speed. So while airbags save lives,
they can cause serious injuries to
adults and larger children who are
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Seats & Seat-Backs
Door Locks
What you should do: Move the front
seats as far back as possible, and
keep adjustable seat-backs in an
upright position whenever the
vehicle is moving.
Your vehicle's seats are designed to
keep you in a comfortable, upright
position so you can take full
advantage of the prelection offered
by seat belts and the energy
Keeping your doors locked reduces
the chance of being thrown out of
the vehicle during a crash. It also
helps prevent occupants from
accidentally opening a door and
falling out, and outsiders from
unexpectedly opening your doors.
absorbing materials in the seats.
Head Restraints
Head restraints can help protect you
from whiplash and other injuries. For
maximum protection, the back of
your head should rest against the
center of the head restraint.
How you adjust your seats and seat-
backs can also affect your safety. For
example, sitting too close to the
steering wheel or dashboard
increases the risk of you or your
passenger being injured by striking
the inside of the vehicle, or by an
inflating airbag.
Reclining a seat-back loo far reduces
the seat belt's effectiveness and
increases the chance that the seat's
occupant will slide under the seat
belt in a crash and be seriously
injured.
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Pre-Drive Safety Checklist
To make sure you and your
Head restraints are properly
adjusted (see page 14 ).
passengers get the maximum
protection from your vehicle's safety
features, check the following each
time before you drive away:
All doors and the tailgate are
closed and locked (see page 12 ).
All cargo is properly stored or
secured (see page 148 ).
All adults, and children who have
outgrown child safety seats, are
wearing their seat belts and
wearing them properly (see page
15).
The rest of this section gives more
detailed information about how you
can maximize your safety.
Any infant or small child is
properly restrained in a child seat
in the back seat (see page 21).
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.
Front seat occupants are sitting
upright and as far back as possible
from the steering wheel and
dashboard (see page 12).
Seat-backs are upright (see page
13).
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