Subaru 2000 Legacy Owner's Manual page 78

n Examples of the types of accidents in which it is possible that
the SRS frontal airbag will deploy.
The SRS frontal airbag and seatbelt pretensioner may be activated
when the vehicle sustains a hard impact in the undercarriage area
from the road surface (such as when the vehicle plunges into a deep
ditch, is severely bumped or knocked hard against an obstacle on the
road such as a curb).
n Examples of the types of accidents in which the SRS frontal
airbag is unlikely to deploy.
There are many types of collisions which might not necessarily require
SRS frontal airbag deployment. If the vehicle strikes an object, such
as a telephone pole or sign pole, or if it slides under a truck's load
bed, or if it sustains an oblique offset frontal impact, the SRS frontal
airbag may not deploy depending on the level of accident forces in-
volved.
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HB1041AB
The vehicle sustains an
oblique offset frontal
impact.
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