2015 Jeep Patriot Owner Manual - Page 44

42 THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE STARTING YOUR VEHICLE WARNING! • Never place a rear-facing child restraint in front of an air bag. A deploying Passenger Advanced Front Air Bag can cause death or serious injury to a child 12 years or younger, including a child in a rearfacing child restraint. • Only use rear-facing child restraint in a vehicle with a rear seat. ejection and the risk of injury caused by striking the inside of the vehicle. Everyone in a motor vehicle should be belted at all times. Enhanced Seat Belt Use Reminder System (BeltAlert) BeltAlert is a feature intended to remind the driver and outboard front passenger (if equipped with outboard front passenger BeltAlert) to buckle their seat belts. The feature is active whenever the ignition Seat Belt Systems switch is in the START or ON/RUN position. If the Buckle up even though you are an excellent driver, even driver or outboard front seat passenger is unbelted, on short trips. Someone on the road may be a poor driver the Seat Belt Reminder Light will turn on and remain and could cause a collision that includes you. This can on until both outboard front seat belts are buckled. happen far away from home or on your own street. The BeltAlert warning sequence begins after the vehicle Research has shown that seat belts save lives, and they speed is over 5 mph (8 km/h) by blinking the Seat Belt can reduce the seriousness of injuries in a collision. Some Reminder Light and sounding an intermittent chime. of the worst injuries happen when people are thrown Once the sequence starts, it will continue for the entire from the vehicle. Seat belts reduce the possibility of duration or until the respective seat belts are buckled.