Mazda MX-5 2021 Manual page 57

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 equip‐
ment
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 The passenger front and side air bags and the seat belt pretensioner are designed to deploy when the passenger
occupant classification 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.
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
X
*1
X
Types of collision
A severe side collision
*1
X
*1
X (impact side only)
*2
A rear collision
No air bag and seat belt
pretensioner will be activat‐
ed in a rear collision.