2004 Saturn L300 Owner's Manual - Page 68

Air Bag Systems This part explains the frontal and side impact air bag systems. Your vehicle has four air bags: {CAUTION: You can be severely injured or killed in a crash if you are not 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 do not replace them. Frontal air bags for the driver and right front passenger are designed to deploy only in moderate to severe frontal and near frontal crashes. They are not designed to inflate 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 past. The side impact air bags are designed to inflate only in moderate to severe crashes where something hits the side of your vehicle. CAUTION: (Continued) • A frontal air bag for the driver and another frontal air bag for the right front passenger, • A roof-mounted side impact air bag for the driver and passenger directly behind the driver, and • A roof-mounted side impact air bag for the right front passenger and the person seated directly behind that passenger. Frontal air bags are designed to help reduce the risk of injury from the force of an inflating air bag. But these air bags must inflate very quickly to do their job and comply with federal regulations. Here are the most important things to know about the air bag systems: 1-62