2003 Chevrolet Cavalier Owner's Manual - Page 59

You can be severely injuredor killed in a crash if you aren't wearing your safety belt - even if you have air bags. Wearing your safety belt during a crash helps reduce your chance of hitting things inside the vehicle or being ejected from it. Air bags are designed to work with safety belts but don't replacethem. Frontal air bags for the driver and right front passenger are designed to deploy only in moderate to severe frontal and frontal near crashes. They aren't designed to inflate at all in rollover, rear or low-speed frontal crashes, or in many side crashes. And, for some unrestrained occupants, frontal air bags may provide less protection in frontal crashes than more forceful air bags have provided in the The side past. impact air bags for the driver and right front passenger are designed to inflate only in moderate to severe crashes where something CAUTION: (Continued) Frontal air bags are designed to help minimize the risk of injury from the force of an inflating frontal air bag while providing enough force to perform properly. Air bags must inflate very quickly to do their job and comply with federal regulations. Therefore, you need to know some important things about the air bag systems... 1-52