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Essential Safety Equipment

Child Restraint

Form No. 8S06-EA-03H

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 if your vehicle has side air 
bags, a front-facing child-restraint 
system should be put on the front 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.

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

Children and Seating Position with 
Side Air Bag:
Allowing anyone to lean over or 
against the front door is dangerous. If 
the vehicle is equipped with side air 
bags, the impact of an inflating side 
air bag could cause serious injury or 
death to the person. Children are 
more likely to sleep in the vehicle; 
when they do, they are more at risk in 
the front passenger’s seat that has a 
side air bag because they may slump 
over into the path of the seatback-
mounted air bag. Furthermore, 
leaning over or against the doors 
could block the side air bag and 
eliminate the advantages of 
supplemental protection. With the 
front air bag and the additional side 
air bag that comes out of the front 
seat, the rear seat is always a better 
location for children who are prone to 
sleeping. If a child can’t be seated in 
the rear, do not allow the child to lean 
over or against the front door, even if 
the child is seated in a child-restraint 
system.

WARNING

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