2003 Chevrolet Malibu Owner's Manual - Page 60

Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) This part explains the Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) air bag system. or Your vehicle has air bags - one air bag for the driver and another air bag for the right front 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 s em in You can be severely injured or killeda crash if you aren't wearing your safety - even if belt 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 replace them. Air bags are designed to work only in moderate to severe hits crashes where the front of your vehicle something. They aren't designed inflate at all to in rollover, rear or low-speed frontal crashes, or in many side crashes. And, for some unrestrained occupants, air bags may provide less protection in frontal crashes than more forceful air bags have provided the past. in wear a safety Everyone in your vehicle should belt properly -whether or not there's an air bag for that person. 1-53