1998 Honda CR-V Owner's Manual - Page 9

Your Vehicle's Safety Features Airbags Following are the most important things you need to know about your airbags: Airbags do not replace seat belts. wearing them properly, are sitting too close to the airbag, or are not sitting in a proper position. Infants and small children are at an even greater risk of injury or death. What you should do: Always wear your seat belt properly and sit upright and as far back as possible from the steering wheel or dashboard. They supplement seat belts by providing extra protection for the heads and chests of front seat occupants. Airbags offer no protection in side impacts, rear impacts, rollovers, or minor or moderate collisions. Your vehicle has a Supplemental Restraint System (SRS) with frontal airbags to help protect the driver and a front seat passenger. This system also includes an indicator light on the instrument panel to alert you to a possible problem with the system. Airbags are designed to deploy only during a severe frontal collision (such as a 25 mph [40 km/h] crash into a parked vehicle of similar size and weight). Airbags can pose serious hazards. SRS To do their job, airbags must inflate with tremendous force and speed. So while airbags save lives, they can cause serious injuries to adults and larger children who are not wearing seat belts, are not Driver and Passenger Safety