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Essential Safety Equipment

SRS Air Bags

SRS Air Bag Deployment Criteria

This chart indicates the applicable SRS equipment that will deploy depending on the type of 

collision.

(The illustrations are the representative cases of collisions.)

SRS 

equipment

Types of collision

A severe frontal/near frontal collision

A severe side collision

*2

A rear collision

Seat belt 

pretensioner

X

*1

 (both sides)

X

*1

 (impact side only)

No air bag and seat belt 

pretensioner will be 

activated in a rear collision.

Driver air 

bag

X

Passenger 

air bag

X

*1

Side air bag

X

*1

 (impact side only)

X : The SRS air bag equipment is designed to deploy in a collision.

*1 

(Passenger Occupant Classification System)

  The passenger front and side air bags and the seat belt pretensioner are designed to deploy when the passenger 

occupant classification sensor detects a passenger sitting on the passenger's seat.

*2  In a side collision, the seat belt pretensioners and the side air bags deploy (only on the side in which the 

collision occurs).

NOTE

In a frontal offset collision, the equipped air bags and pretensioners may all deploy 

depending on the direction, angle, and rate of impact.

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