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Essential Safety Equipment

Child Restraint

Form No. 8R09-EA-02G

One Belt, One Passenger:
Using one seat belt for more than one person at a time is dangerous. A seat belt used 
in this way can’t spread the impact forces properly and the two passengers could be 
crushed together and seriously injured or even killed. Never use one belt for more 
than one person at a time.

Child-Restraint Tether:
Using a child-restraint system that requires a tether is dangerous. Your Mazda doesn’t 
have a child-restraint tether. The child-restraint system cannot be properly secured. In 
a collision, it could move and cause serious injury or even death to the child or 
someone else. Always use a child-restraint system designed for use without a tether.

A seat belt or child-restraint system can become very hot in a closed vehicle during 
warm weather. To avoid burning yourself or a child, check them before you or your child 
touches them.

NOTE

Your Mazda is equipped with LATCH lower anchors for attachment of specially 
designed LATCH child-restraint systems behind the passenger seat. When using these 
anchors to secure a child-restraint system, refer to "LATCH Child-Restraint Systems" 
(page 2-18).

WARNING

CAUTION

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