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Essential Safety Equipment

Child Restraint

Seating a child in a child-restraint system on the passenger seat is dangerous under 

certain conditions (With Passenger Occupant Classification System):

Your vehicle is equipped with passenger occupant classification sensor. Even with the 

passenger occupant classification sensor, if you must use the passenger seat to seat a 

child, using a child-restraint system on the passenger seat under the following conditions 

increases the danger of the passenger air bag deploying and could result in serious injury 

or death to the child.

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  The passenger air bag deactivation indicator light does not illuminate when seating a 

child in the child-restraint system.

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  Luggage or other items are placed on the seat with the child in the child-restraint 

system.

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  The seat is washed.

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  Liquids are spilled on the seat.

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  The passenger seat is moved backward, pushing into luggage or other items placed 

behind it.

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  Luggage or other items are placed between the passenger seat and driver seat.

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  An electric device is put on the passenger's seat.

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  An additional electrical device, such as a seat warmer is installed to the surface of the 

passenger seat.

Do not allow a child or anyone to lean over or against the side window of a vehicle with 

side air bags:

It is dangerous to allow anyone to lean over or against the side window, the area of the 

passenger seat from which the side air bags deploy, even if a child-restraint system is 

used. The impact of inflation from a side air bag could cause serious injury or death to an 

out of position child. Furthermore, leaning over or against the door could block the side 

air bags and eliminate the advantages of supplemental protection. Because the side air 

bag deploys from the outboard shoulder of the seat, do not allow the child to lean over or 

against the side window, even if the child is seated in a child-restraint system.

Never use one seat belt on more than one person at a time:

Using one seat belt for more than one person at a time is dangerous. A seat belt used 

in this way cannot 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 and always operate the vehicle with each occupant properly 

restrained.

Always use a child-restraint system designed for use without a tether or the LATCH 

lower anchor:

Using a child-restraint system that requires a tether or the LATCH lower anchor is 

dangerous. Your Mazda does not have a child-restraint tether or the LATCH lower anchor. 

The child-restraint system cannot be properly secured. In a collision, it could move and 

injure other occupants as well as result in serious injuries or death to the child.

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