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Essential Safety Equipment

SRS Air Bags

Form No. 8S18-EA-03I

Small children should be protected by a child-restraint system. In certain regions, larger 
children must use a child-restraint system (page 2-21).
Carefully consider which child-restraint system is necessary for your child and follow the 
installation directions in this Owner

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s Manual as well as the child-restraint system 

manufacturer

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s instructions.

Air Bags without Seat Belts:
Depending only on the air bags for protection during an accident is dangerous. 
Alone, air bags may not prevent serious injuries. The appropriate air bags can be 
expected to inflate only in collisions with frontal, near frontal or side forces that are at 
least moderate. Vehicle occupants should always wear seat belts.

Child in the Front Seat:
Placing a child, 12 years or under, in the front seat is dangerous. The child could be 
hit by a deploying air bag and be seriously injured or even killed. Even if the front 
passenger air bag deactivation indicator light illuminates, always move the front 
passenger seat as far back as possible. A sleeping child is more likely to lean against 
the door and be hit by the side air bag in a moderate, right-side collision. Whenever 
possible, always secure a child 12 years and under on the rear seat with an 
appropriate child-restraint system for the child

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s age and size.

Rear-Facing Child-Restraint System:
Rear-facing child-restraint systems on the front seat are particularly dangerous.
The child-restraint system can be hit by a deploying air bag and moved violently 
backward resulting in serious injury or death to the child. Even though you may feel 
assured that the front passenger air bag will not deploy based on the fact that the front 
passenger air bag deactivation indicator light illuminates, NEVER use a rear-facing 
child-restraint system in the front seat with an air bag that could deploy even in a 
moderate collision.

WARNING

Deploying air bag

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