Subaru IMPREZA 2002 Owner's Manual page 72

Seat, seatbelt and SRS airbags
n When is the SRS frontal airbag unlikely to There are many types of collisions which might not
deploy? necessarily require SRS frontal airbag deployment.
If the vehicle strikes an object, such as a telephone
pole or sign pole, or if it slides under a truck's load
bed, or if it sustains an oblique offset frontal impact,
the SRS frontal airbag may not deploy depending on
the level of accident forces involved.
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