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old chi ld is on the front passenger seat
and the other cond itions for airbag de-
ployment are met.
- Accident statistics have shown that chil-
dren are generally safer in the rear seat
area than in the front seating posit ion.
- For their own safety, all children, espe-
cially 12 years and younger, should al-
ways ride in the back properly restrained
for their age and size .
Advanced front airbag system
Your veh icle is equipped w ith a front Advanced
Airbag System in compliance with United
States Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard
208 as app licable at the time your vehicle was
manufactured .
The front Advanced Airbag System supple-
ments the safety belts to provide add it io na l
protection fo r the d river's and fron t passeng-
e r's heads and upper bodies in fronta l crashes.
The airbags inflate only in frontal impacts
when th e vehicle deceleration is high enough.
The fron t Advanced Airbag Syst em for the
front seat occupants is not a substit ute for
your safety belts. Rather, it is part of the over-
all occupant restraint system in your vehicle.
Always remember that the airbag system can
only help to protect you, if you are s itting up-
right, wearing you r safety belt and wearing it
properly . This is why you and you r passengers
must always be properly restrained, not just
because the law requires you to be.
The Advanced Airbag System in your veh icle
has been cert ified to meet the "low risk" re-
qu irements for 3 and 6 year-o ld children on
the passenge r side and very small adu lts on
the dr iver side . The low risk dep loymen t crite-
ria are intended t o he lp red uce t he risk of in-
jury through interaction with the front airbag
that can occ ur, for example , by being too
close to the steer ing whee l and instrument
panel when the airbag inflates.
In addition, the system has been certif ied to
comp ly with the "suppression" requirements
A irbag sys tem
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of the Safety Standa rd, to turn off the front
airbag for infants 12 months old and younger
who are restrained on the front passenger
seat in child restraints that are listed in the
Standa rd
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page 169, Child restraints and
Advanced Airbags .
"Suppress ion" requires the front a irbag on the
passenger side to be turned off if:
- a child up to abo ut one year of age is re-
strained on the front passenger seat in one
of the rear-fac ing or forward-facing infant
restraints listed in Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard 208 with which the Ad-
vanced Airbag System in your ve hicle was
cert ified . For a listing of the child restraints
that were used to certify your vehicle's com-
plia nce w ith t he US Safety Standa rd
¢ page 169,
- weight less than a thres ho ld level stored in
t he control unit is de t ected on t he fron t pas-
senge r seat.
When a person is detected on the front pas-
senger seat, weighing more than the total
weight of a ch ild t ha t is abou t 1 year old re-
stra ined in one of t he rear -facing or forward -
facing infa nt res t raints (listed in Fede ral Mo-
tor Vehicle Safety Standard 208 wit h which
the Advanced Airbag System in your vehicle
was certified), the front airbag on the passen-
ger side may or may not deploy.
The
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light comes on
when the elect ronic contro l unit detects a to-
ta l we ight on the front passenger seat that re-
quires the front airbag to be tu rned off. If the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not
come on, the front airbag on the passenger
s ide has not been turned off by the cont ro l
unit and ca n dep loy if t he control un it senses
an impact that meets the cond itions stored in
its memory.
If
the total weig ht on the front passenge r
seat is more than that of a typical 1 yea r-old ,
but less than the we igh t of a small ad ult, t he
fron t air bag on the passenger side may dep loy
(the
PASSENGER AIR BAG OFF
light does not
come on).
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