Srs Air Bag Deployment Criteria - Mazda MX-5 Owner's Manual

Essential Safety Equipment
SRS Air Bags
This chart indicates the applicable SRS equipment that will deploy depending on the type of
collision.
(The illustrations are the representative cases of collisions.)
A severe frontal/near frontal collision
SRS
equipment
Seat belt
pretensioner
Driver air
bag
Passenger
air bag
Side air bag
X : The SRS air bag equipment is designed to deploy in a collision.
*1 (Passenger Occupant Classi cation System)
The passenger front and side air bags and the seat belt pretensioner are designed to deploy when the passenger
occupant classi cation sensor detects a passenger sitting on the passenger's seat.
*2 In a side collision, the seat belt pretensioners and the side air bags deploy (only on the side in which the
collision occurs).
NOTE
In a frontal offset collision, the equipped air bags and pretensioners may all deploy
depending on the direction, angle, and rate of impact.
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SRS Air Bag Deployment Criteria

*1
X (both sides)
X
*1
X
Types of collision
A severe side collision
*1
X (impact side only)
*1
X (impact side only)
*2
A rear collision
No air bag and seat belt
pretensioner will be
activated in a rear collision.