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Essential Safety Equipment

Child-Restraint

 If You Must Use the Front Seat for 

Children

    If you cannot put all children in the rear 
seat, at least put the smallest children 
in the rear and be sure the largest child 
up front uses the shoulder belt over the 
shoulder.
  NEVER put a rear-facing child-restraint 
system on the front passenger seat whether 
your vehicle is equipped with a seat 
weight sensor or not.
  This seat is also not set up for tethered 
child-restraint systems, put them in one of 
the rear seat positions set up with tether 
anchors.
  Likewise the LATCH child-restraint 
system cannot be secured in the front 
passenger's seat and should be used in the 
rear seat.
  Do not allow anyone to sleep against the 
side window since your vehicle has side 
and curtain air bags, it could cause serious 
injuries to an out of position occupant. 
As children more often sleep in cars, 
it is better to put them in the rear seat. 
If installing the child-restraint system 
on the front seat is unavoidable, follow 
these instructions when using a front-
facing child-restraint system in the front 
passenger's seat.

   NOTE

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  To check if your front seats have side 

air bags:

  Mazda vehicles equipped with side air 

bag will have a "SRS AIRBAG" tag on 
the outboard shoulder of the front seats.

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  To check if your vehicle has curtain air 

bags:

  Mazda vehicles equipped with curtain 

air bag will have an "SRS AIRBAG" 
marking on the window pillars along 
the roof edge.

WARNING

  Always move the front passenger seat 
as far back as possible if installing a 
front-facing child-restraint system on it 
is unavoidable:

  As your vehicle has front air bags and 
doubly so because your vehicle has 
side air bags, a front-facing child-
restraint system should be put on the 
front passenger seat only when it is 
unavoidable.
  Even if the front passenger air 
bag deactivation indicator light 
illuminates, always move the seat as 
far back as possible, because the force 
of a deploying air bag could cause 
serious injury or death to the child.
  

  Never use a rear-facing child-restraint 
system in the front seat with an air bag 
that could deploy:

  Rear-facing  child-restraint  systems 
on the front seat are particularly 
dangerous.
  Even in a moderate collision, 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, you should 
not use a rear-facing child-restraint 
system in the front seat.
  

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