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Essential Safety Equipment

SRS Air Bags

*Some models.

SRS Air Bag Deployment Criteria

This chart indicates the applicable SRS equipment that will deploy depending on the type of 

collision.

(The illustrations are the representative cases of collisions.)

SRS 

equipment

Types of collision

A severe frontal/near frontal 

collision

A severe side 

collision

*4

A roll-over/near 

roll-over

*3

A rear collision

Front 

seat belt 

pretensioner

X

*1

 (both sides)

X

*1

 (impact side 

only)

X

*1

 (both sides)

No air bag and 

front seat belt 

pretensioner will be 

activated in a rear 

collision.

Driver air 

bag

X

Front 

passenger 

air bag

X

*1

Side air bag

*

X

*2

X

*1

 (impact side 

only)

Curtain air 

bag

*

X

*2

X (impact side 

only)

X (both sides)

X: The SRS air bag equipment is designed to deploy in a collision.

*1 

(With Front Passenger Occupant Classification System)

  The front passenger front and side air bags and the seat belt pretensioner are designed to deploy depending on 

the condition of the total seated weight on the front passenger seat.

*2 

(With Front Passenger Occupant Classification System)

  In an angled collision, the side air bag and curtain air bag may deploy.

*3 

(With Front Passenger Occupant Classification System)

  In a roll-over accident, the seat belt pretensioners and the curtain air bags deploy.

*4 

(With Side/Curtain Air Bags)

  In a side collision, the seat belt pretensioners and the side/curtain air bags deploy (only on the side in which the 

collision occurs).

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