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Essential Safety Equipment

Child-Restraint

Always install the head restraint and 

adjust it to the appropriate position 

after removing the child-restraint 

system:

Driving with the head restraint 

removed is dangerous as impact to the 

occupant's head cannot be prevented 

during emergency braking or in a 

collision, which could result in a serious 

accident, injury or death.

Refer to Head Restraints on page 

2-12.

 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 occupant 

classification 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



  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.



  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.

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