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Occupant Restraint Systems

Occupant Restraint Systems. Air Bags. A balloon type device design to help protect you when your car is struck. They usually deploy at speeds of over 20 mph. Are listed as a “Passive Restraint Device”. They do not reduce the need for wearing a safety belt!!. Safety Belts.

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Occupant Restraint Systems

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  1. Occupant Restraint Systems

  2. Air Bags • A balloon type device design to help protect you when your car is struck. • They usually deploy at speeds of over 20 mph. • Are listed as a “Passive Restraint Device”. • They do not reduce the need for wearing a safety belt!!

  3. Safety Belts • Safety belts are called Active RestraintDevices- not an automatic feature! • Make sure your safety belt is not twisted. • Make sure that it is securely fastened. • Adjust it to where it is comfortable but not worn improperly. • As the driver you are responsible for everyone in the vehicle. Make sure everyone wears their safety belts!!

  4. Advantages of Wearing Safety Belts • The driver stays in the driving compartment, so he/she can control the vehicle better. • The driver and occupants stay in the vehicle, this reduces chances of injuries. • The body gets slowed down gradually. Without belts the body stops abruptly which increases brain trauma and internal injuries

  5. Advantages of Wearing Safety Belts • The occupants are not thrown into the vehicles involved in the crash. • Occupant will not hit the driver so that he/she may keep as much control of the vehicle as possible!

  6. Head Restraints • Standard equipment on front seats and optional on rear seats of some vehicles. • Quite simply these are the pads on top of your seats. • They protect against whiplash, especially when your vehicle is hit from behind. • Head restraints should be high enough to make contact with the back of your head not the base of your skull.

  7. NO! YES!

  8. Alabama Safety Belt Laws • Alabama Law requires front seat occupants to use a safety belt when riding in passenger vehicles. • Anyone under the age of 15 must wear a safety belt in the back seat. • You can and will get pulled over for not wearing a safety belt.

  9. Alabama Child Restraint Laws • Alabama Law requires that all children six and under occupy a federally approved child restraint system when riding in a motor vehicle. Both front and back seats are mandated! • Four and five year olds may use standard safety belts instead of child safety seats. • Ages three and under must be in a federally approved car seat.

  10. Child Restraint Laws in Alabama • younger than 1 or less than 20 pounds in a rear-facing infant seat;

  11. Child Restraint Laws in Alabama • Age 1through age 3 or 20-40 pounds in a forward-facing child safety seat;

  12. Child Restraint Laws in Alabama • Children 5 years old are required to sit in a booster seat.

  13. Car seat accessories

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