2002 Ford Explorer Owner Guide 6th Printing - Page 159

Seating and safety restraints If...The driver's safety belt is buckled before the ignition switch is turned to the ON position...Then...The BeltMinder feature will not activate. The BeltMinder feature is a supplemental warning to the seat belt warning function. This feature provides additional reminders to the driver that the driver's seat belt is unbuckled by intermittently sounding a chime and illuminating the seat belt warning lamp in the instrument cluster. If...The driver's seat belt is not buckled before the vehicle has reached at least 5 km/h (3 mph) and 1-2 minutes have elapsed since the ignition switch has been turned to ON...The driver's seat belt is buckled while the seat belt indicator light is illuminated and the seat belt warning chime is sounding...The driver's seat belt is buckled before the ignition switch is turned to the ON position...Then...The BeltMinder feature is activated the seat belt warning light illuminates and the warning chime sounds for 6 seconds every 30 seconds, repeating for approximately 5 minutes or until seat belt is buckled. The BeltMinder feature will not activate. The BeltMinder feature will not activate. The purpose of the BeltMinder is to remind occasional wearers to wear safety belts all of the time. The following are reasons most often given for not wearing safety belts: (All statistics based on U.S. data) Reasons given..."Crashes are rare events" Consider...36700 crashes occur every day. The more we drive, the more we are exposed to "rare" events, even for good drivers. 1 in 4 of us will be seriously injured in a crash during our lifetime. 3 of 4 fatal crashes occur within 25 miles of home. "I'm not going far" 159