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Essential Safety Equipment

Child Restraint

Form No. 8R65-EA-03C

Children and Seating Position with Side and Curtain Air Bags:
Allowing anyone to lean over or against the front or rear doors is dangerous. If the 
vehicle is equipped with side and curtain air bags, the impact of inflation 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

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s seat that have a side air 

bag because they may slump over into the path of the air bags.Furthermore, leaning 
over or against the doors could block the side and curtain air bags 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. Do not allow a child to lean over or against the 
doors, even if the child is seated in a child-restraint system.

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

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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.

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 in the rear seat. When using these anchors to 
secure a child-restraint system, refer to "LATCH Child-Restraint Systems" (page 2-26).

WARNING

CAUTION

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