Emergency Flashers; If Your Vehicle Has To Be Stopped In An Emergency; If Your Vehicle Has To Be - Toyota RAV4 2019 Owner's Manual

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7-1. Essential information

Emergency flashers

7-1.Essential information
The emergency flashers are
used to warn other drivers
when the vehicle has to be
stopped in the road due to a
breakdown, etc.
Operating instructions
Press the switch.
All the turn signal lights will flash.
To turn them off, press the switch once
again.
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Emergency flashers

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If the emergency flashers are used for
a long time while the engine is not
operating, the battery may discharge.
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If any of the SRS airbags deploy
(inflate) or in the event of a strong rear
impact, the emergency flashers will
turn on automatically.
The emergency flashers will turn off
automatically after operating for
approximately 20 minutes. To manu-
ally turn the emergency flashers off,
press the switch twice. (The emer-
gency flashers may not turn on auto-
matically depending on the force of
the impact and conditions of the colli-
sion.)

If your vehicle has to be

stopped in an emer-
gency
Only in an emergency, such as
if it becomes impossible to
stop the vehicle in the normal
way, stop the vehicle using the
following procedure:
Stopping the vehicle
1
Steadily step on the brake pedal
with both feet and firmly depress
it.
Do not pump the brake pedal repeat-
edly as this will increase the effort
required to slow the vehicle.
2
Shift the shift lever to N.

If the shift lever is shifted to N
3
After slowing down, stop the
vehicle in a safe place by the
road.
4
Stop the engine.
 If the shift lever cannot be shifted
to N
3
Keep depressing the brake
pedal with both feet to reduce
vehicle speed as much as possi-
ble.
4
Perform the following proce-
dure to stop the engine: