Dodge 2008 Sprinter - Manual (Page 36)

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Safety
Occupant safety
2
̄ Occupant safety
This section contains all the most impor-
tant information about the restraint sys-
tems in your vehicle. In an accident, your
vehicle collides with another object, e.g.
another vehicle. This may cause your ve-
hicle to accelerate or decelerate ex-
tremely quickly. During this acceleration
or deceleration, the vehicle occupants
will be moved in the opposite direction
to the force of the impact. There is there-
fore the risk of vehicle occupants injur-
ing themselves on the vehicle interior or
on parts of the vehicle. The purpose of
supplemental restraint systems, i.e.
principally the seat belts supplemented
by emergency tensioning retractors, belt
force limiters and airbags when neces-
sary, is to minimize this risk of injury.
However, the seat belts and airbags can-
not generally prevent injuries caused by
objects penetrating the vehicle from the
outside.
The most important restraint systems
are:
ț the seat belts
ț restraint systems for children, since
they are the most effective means of
reducing the extent to which the oc-
cupants are moved in the event of an
accident
Additional protection is provided by:
ț SRS (Supplemental Restraint Sys-
tem), comprising:
ț emergency tensioning retractors
ț belt force limiters
ț airbags
i An airbag increases the degree of
protection afforded to vehicle occupants
wearing a seat belt and is therefore only
to be considered as an additional re-
straint system to the seat belt. Airbags
do not in any way relieve any vehicle oc-
cupants of the need to wear their seat
belt correctly at all times.
Restraint systems
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