1996 Buick Riviera Owner's Manual - Page 19

Safety Belts: They're for Everyone This part of the manual tells you how to use safety .b.elts properly. It also tells you some things you should not do with safety belts. And it explains the Supplemental Restraint System (SRS), or air bag system. YOLU vehicle has a light that comes 'on'asa reminder to buckle up. (See "Safety Belt ReMnder Light" in the Index.) I Don't let anyone ride where he or she can't wear a safety belt properly. If YOU are in a crash and you're not wearinga safety belt, your injuries can be much worse. You can hit things inside the -vehicleor be ejected from it. You can be seriously injured orkilled. In the same crash, might you not be if you are buckled up. Always fasten your safety belt, and check that yourpassengers' belts .,arefastened properlytoo. In most states and Canadian provinces, law says to the They wear safety belts. Here's why: work. You never knowif you'll be i a crash.'If you do have a n crash, you don't know ifit will be a bad one. A few crashes are mild, some crashes can .so -and be serious that even buckled a personwouldn't survive. up in But most crashes are between. In many of them, walk people who buckleup can survive and sometimes away. Witho,ut belts they could have been hyrt b,adly or killed. After more than years of-safetybelts in vehicles, 25 the facts are clear, most crashes buckling does In up matter ...a lot!