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Essential Safety Equipment

Child Restraint

Child-Restraint Precautions

Mazda strongly urges the use of child-restraint systems for children small enough to use 

them.

You are required by law to use a child-restraint system for children in the U.S. and Canada.

Check your local and state or provincial laws for specific requirements regarding the safety 

of children riding in your vehicle.

Whatever child-restraint system you consider, please pick the appropriate one for the age 

and size of the child, obey the law and follow the instructions that come with the individual 

child-restraint system.

A child who has outgrown child-restraint systems should sit in the rear and use seat belts, 

both lap and shoulder. If the shoulder belt crosses the neck or face, move the child closer 

to the center of the vehicle in the outboard seats, and towards the buckle on the right if the 

child is seated on the center seat.

Statistics confirm that the rear seat is the best place for all children up to 12 years of age, 

and more so with a supplemental restraint system (air bags).

A rear-facing child-restraint system should 

NEVER

 be used on the front seat with the air 

bag system activated. The front passenger's seat is also the least preferred seat for other 

child-restraint systems.

(With Front Passenger Occupant Classification System)

To reduce the chance of injuries caused by deployment of the front passenger air bag, the 

front passenger occupant classification sensor works as a part of the supplemental restraint 

system. This system deactivates the front passenger front and side air bags and also the 

front passenger seat belt pretensioner system when the front passenger air bag deactivation 

indicator light illuminates.

When an infant or small child sits on the front passenger seat, the system shuts off the front 

passenger front and side air bags and seat belt pretensioner system, so make sure the front 

passenger air bag deactivation indicator light illuminates.

Even if the front passenger air bag is shut off, Mazda strongly recommends that children be 

properly restrained and child-restraint systems of all kinds are properly secured on the rear 

seats which are the best place for children.

For more details, refer to "Front passenger occupant classification sensor" (page 

2-65).

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