Chevrolet Spark Owners Manual: Safety Belt Use During Pregnancy
Safety belts work for everyone, including pregnant women. Like all occupants, they are more likely to be seriously injured if they do not wear safety belts.
A pregnant woman should wear a lap-shoulder belt, and the lap portion should be worn as low as possible, below the rounding, throughout the pregnancy.
The best way to protect the fetus is to protect the mother. When a safety belt is worn properly, it is more likely that the fetus will not be hurt in a crash. For pregnant women, as for anyone, the key to making safety belts effective is wearing them properly.
Lap-Shoulder Belt
All seating positions in the vehicle have a lap-shoulder belt.
The following instructions explain how to wear a lap-shoulder belt properly.
Adjust the seat, if the seat is adjustable, so you can ...
Safety Belt Extender
If the vehicle's safety belt will fasten around you, you should use it.
But if a safety belt is not long enough, your dealer will order you an extender.
When you go in to order it, take the hea ...
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What Will You See after an Airbag Inflates?
After the frontal airbags and seat-mounted side impact airbags inflate, they
quickly deflate, so quickly that some people may not even realize an airbag inflated.
Roof-rail airbags may still be at least partially inflated for some time after
they inflate. Some components of the airbag module ma ...
Information Displays
Driver Information Center (DIC)
The DIC displays information about the vehicle. It also displays warning messages
if a system problem is detected. See Vehicle Messages on page 5-26. All messages
appear in the DIC display in the instrument cluster.
DIC Operation and Displays
The DIC has differ ...
Using the Preset Buttons
Up to seven favorites pages can be saved, and each page can store up to five
channels.
To change a preset button, tune to the new desired channel and hold the button.
Listening to Preset Channels
Continue pressing or
to select the desired favorites
page.
Press the preset button ...
