Mazda MX-5 2020 Owner's Manual page 60

Essential Safety Equipment
SRS Air Bags
SRS Air Bag Deployment Criteria
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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Types of collision
A severe side collision
*1
X
X
*1
X
*1
X
*2
*1
X
No air bag and seat belt
pretensioner will be activat‐
ed in a rear collision.
(impact side only)
A rear collision