Understanding Volvo's Supplemental Restraint System (SRS)

From the RD News Desk

Many questions have been raised among Yellow Transportation Road Drivers and head-on collisions that have occurred involving the lack of airbag deployment. Consequently, here at RoadDrivers.Org, we thought we would provide a bit of insight on the issue.

Volvo's Supplemental Restraint System is just that, a supplemental system to the safety belt.

The following statements can be found in the student hand book pictured to the left:

The SRS system is designed to reduce the risk of injury to the driver's face and upper body in a head on collision with a fixed or heavy object. The damage to the truck is not always proportional to whether the air bag deploys or not. The SRS system is not designed to be activated when:

the collision is from either side the collision is from the rear the truck rolls over the collision is at low speed or against soft objects such as bushes, snow drifts, etc.

The airbag together with the safety belt provides a greater degree of safety to the driver in severe frontal or front angular type collisions.

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