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Essential Safety Equipment

Child Restraint

Form No. 8R65-EA-03C

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If You Must Use the Front Seat 
for Children

If you cannot put all children in the rear 
seat, at least put the smallest children in 
the rear and be sure the largest child up 
front uses the shoulder belt over the 
shoulder.
Do not put rear-facing child-restraint 
systems on the front passenger

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s seat.

This seat is also not set up for tethered 
child-restraint systems, put them in one of 
the rear seat positions set up with tether 
anchors.
Likewise the LATCH child-restraint 
system cannot be secured in the front 
passenger

’

s seat and should be used in the 

rear seat.
Don

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t allow anyone to sleep against the 

right front or rear doors if you have an 
optional side and curtain air bag, it could 
cause serious injuries to an out of position 
occupant. As children more often sleep in 
cars, it is better to put them in the rear 
seat. If installing the child-restraint 
system on the front seat is unavoidable, 
follow these instructions when using a 
front-facing child-restraint system in the 
front passenger

’

s seat.

NOTE

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To check if your 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.

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To check if your vehicle has curtain 
air bags:
Every Mazda curtain air bag will 
have an "SRS-Air Bag" marking on 
the front and rear window pillars 
along the roof edge.

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.
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.  
NEVER use a rear-facing child-
restraint system in the front seat with 
an air bag that could deploy even in a 
moderate collision.

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