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Essential Safety Equipment

Child Restraint

Form No. 8Q44-EA-01K

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If You Must Use the Front Seat 
for Children

If you cannot put all children in the rear 
seats, at least put the smallest in the rear 
and be sure the largest child up front uses 
the shoulder belt over the shoulder.
Do not put rear-facing child-restraint 
systems on the front passenger’s seat.
This seat is also not set up for tethered 
child-restraint systems, put them in one of 
the three rear seat positions set up with 
tether anchors.
Don’t allow anyone to sleep against the 
right front door if you have an optional 
side air bag, 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

Inspect this function before each use of 
the child-restraint system. You should 
not be able to pull the shoulder belt out 
of the retractor while the system is in 
the automatic locking mode. When 
you remove the child-restraint system, 
be sure the belt fully retracts to return 
the system to emergency locking mode 
before occupants use the seat belts.

NOTE

To check if your Mazda front seats 
have side air bags:
Every Mazda side air bag will have a 
"SRS-Air Bag" label on the outboard 
shoulder of the front seats.

Front Passenger’s Seat Position:
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 seat only when it is unavoidable.
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.

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

WARNING

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