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be worn as low as possible throughout the pregnancy.
The best way to protect the fetus is to protect the mother. When a safety
belt is worn properly, it’s more likely that the fetus won’t be hurt
in a
crash. For pregnant women, as for anyone, the key to making safety belts
effective is wearing them properly.
RIGHT FRONT PASSENGER POSITION
The right front passenger’s safety belt works the same way as the driver’s
safety belt. See “Driver Position,” earlier in this part.
When the lap portion
of the belt is pulled out all the way, it will lock. If it
does, let it go back all the way and start again.
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It’s very important for rear seat passengers to buckle up! Accident
statistics
show that unbelted people in the rear seat are hurt more often
in crashes than those who are wearing safety belts.
Rear passengers who aren’t safety belted can
be thrown out of the vehicle
in a crash. And they can strike others in the vehicle who are wearing
safety belts.
Rear Seat Outside Passenger Positions
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The positions next to the windows have lap-shoulder belts. Here’s how to
wear one properly.
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1. Pick up the latch
plate and pull the
belt
across you.
Don’t let it get
twisted.
2. Push the latch plate into the buckle until it clicks.
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If the belt stops
before it reaches the
buckle, tilt the latch
plate
and keep
pulling until you can
buckle it.
If the belt is not long enough, see “Safety Belt Extender” at the end of
this section. Make sure the release button on the buckle faces upward
or outward so you would be able to unbuckle it quickly if you ever had
to.
1 ci 3. To make the lap
part tight, pull
down on the
buckle end of the
belt as
you pull up
on the shoulder
part.
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The lap part of the belt should be worn low and snug on the hips, just
touching the thighs. In
a crash, this applies force to the strong pelvic
bones. And you’d be less
likely to slide under the lap belt. If you slid
under it,
the belt would apply force at your abdomen. This could cause
serious or even fatal injuries. The shoulder belt should go over the
shoulder and across the chest. These parts of the body are best able
to
take belt restraining forces.
The safety belt locks
if there’s a sudden stop or a crash.
You can be seriously hurt. if your shoulder belt is too loose, In 8
crash yuu would move forward too much, which could increase
injury. The shoulder belt should fct against your body.
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To unlatch the
belt, just
push the
button on the
buckle.
CENTER PASSENGER POSITION
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When you sit in a
center seating
position,
you have a
lap
safety belt, which
has
no retractor. To
make the belt longer,
tilt the latch plate
and pull it alonp the
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To make the belt
shorter, pull its free
end
as shown until
the belt
is snug.
Buckle, position and release it the same
way as the lap part of a
lap-shoulder belt.
If the belt isn’t long enough, see “Safety Belt Extender”
at the end
of this section.
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you would be able to unbuckle it quickly if you ever had to.
CHILDREN
Everyone in a vehicle needs protection! That includes infants and all
children smaller than adult size. In fact, the law
in every state and
Canadian province says children up to some age must be restrained while
in a vehicle.
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A CAUTION:
Smaller children and babies should always be restrained in a
child or infant restraint, The instructions for the restraint will
say whether it is the right type and size for your child, A very
young child’s hip bones are SO smatl that a regular belt might
not stay low on €he hips, as it should, Instead, the belt wi11 likely
be over the child’s abdomen. In 01 crash the belt would apply
force right on the child’s abdomen, which could cause serious or
fatal injuries, So, be sure that any child small enough for one is
always yruperly restrained in a child or infant restraint.
A CAUTION:
Nevcr hold a baby in your arms while riding in a vehicle, A baby
doesn’t weigh much 0- until a crash. During a crash a baby will
become so heavy you can’t hold it, For example, in a crash at
only 25 myh (40 kmlh), a 12apound (5.5 kg) baby w4ll suddenly
become 8 240-pound (110 kg) force on your arms, The baby
would be almost impossible fo hold.
CAUTION: (Con t inrred)
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Be sure to follow the instructions for the restraint. You may find these
instructions
on the restraint itself or in a booklet, or both. These
restraints use the belt system in your vehicle, but the child also has to be
secured within the restraint to help reduce the chance
of personal injury.
The instructions that come with the infant or child restraint will show you
how to do that.
?+%ere to Put the Restraint
Accident statistics show that children are safer if they are restrained in
the rear rather than the front seat. We at General Motors therefore
recommend that
you put your child restraint in the rear seat. NEVER put
a rear-facing child restraint in the front passenger seat. Here’s
why:
A CAUTION:
A child in a rear-facing child restraint can be seriously injured
if the right-front passenger’s air bag inflates, This is because
the back of a rear-facing child restraint would be very close to
the
inflating air bag. If your vehicle has a right-frunt
passenger’s air bag, always secure a rear-facing child restraint
in the rear seat,
You may secure a fonvard-facing child restraint in the right
front seat, However, before securing a forward-facing chitd
restraint, ALWAYS move the frornt passenger seat as far back
as it will go. Or, secure the child restraint in the rear seat.
CAUTION:
A child in B child restraint in the frontenter seat can be
badly injured by the passenger air bag if it inflates. NWEK
use a child restraint in the fmnt-center seat. It’s ahvays better
to secure a child restmint in the rcar seat, You may, howeiq
secure a forward-facing child restraint in the right-front
passenger seat unty with the seat moved all the way back
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