2009 Chrysler Town & Country Owner Manual - Page 56

54 THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE STARTING YOUR VEHICLE • Front seat belt retractors incorporate pretensioners to enhance occupant protection by managing occupant energy during an impact event If you will be carrying children too small for adult-sized seat belts, the seat belts or the Lower Anchors and Tether for CHildren (LATCH) feature also can be used to hold infant and child restraint systems. WARNING! In a collision, you and your passengers can suffer much greater injuries if you are not properly buckled up. You can strike the interior of your vehicle or other passengers, or you can be thrown out of the vehicle. Always be sure you and others in your vehicle are buckled up properly. NOTE: The front airbags have a multistage inflator design. This allows the airbag to have different rates of Buckle up even though you are an excellent driver, even inflation that are based on collision severity. on short trips. Someone on the road may be a poor driver and cause a collision that includes you. This can happen Please pay close attention to the information in this far away from home or on your own street. section. It tells you how to use your restraint system properly, to keep you and your passengers as safe as Research has shown that seat belts save lives, and they possible. can reduce the seriousness of injuries in a collision. Some of the worst injuries happen when people are thrown from the vehicle. Seat belts reduce the possibility of