Your Vehicle’s Safety Restraint System (SRS)

Seatbelts, airbags and impact absorbing materials found in and on your vehicle, including the windshield, are all part of a safety network, commonly referred to as the vehicle’s Safety Restraint System, or SRS. All the individual components of the Safety Restraint System are dependent on each other, so if there is a compromise in just one aspect of the SRS, it will likely lead to a complete failure of the rest of the system.

It is well known that seatbelts and airbags are dependent upon one another in order to provide full support in the event of an accident. Additionally, most of your vehicle’s safety features are also dependent upon the windshield. For example, the windshield provides support for your vehicle’s airbags (the passenger airbag in particular). Without this support, the airbag would be incapable of being fully deployed and any protection the airbag was meant to provide would be compromised. Alternatively, the windshield plays a major role in the structural integrity of your vehicles passenger compartment, especially in the event of a rollover. If the windshield is unstable, it may very well fail in the event of a rollover accident, causing the passenger compartment to fall in on itself, putting the vehicle’s occupants at extreme risk of injury or death.