SMART forfour Operating Instructions Manual page 146

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Side airbags
The side airbags are integrated into the
driver's and front passenger's seat back
rests. If activated, they are intended to
increase the potential protection for the
thorax (but not the head, neck and arms) of
the occupants on the side of the car that
is struck.
Danger of injury!
To minimise the risk of injury if
a side airbag deploys, you should en
sure that
there are no other persons, pets or
objects between each occupant and
the range protected by a side airbag.
only lightweight garments are hung
from the clothes hooks in the car.
there are no heavy or sharp edged
objects in the pockets of such gar
ments.
Danger of injury!
Observe the following notes to
reduce the risk of serious or fatal in
juries if the side airbag deploys:
Occupants particularly children
should never rest their head on the
area around the window from which
the side airbag could emerge if de
ployed.
The car's occupants must always be
wearing a seat belt correctly and re
cline against a backrest that is more
or less upright.
Always secure children under 150
centimetres (approx. 5 feet) tall and
under 12 years of age with suitable
child restraint systems*.
Airbags
The side airbags are activated:
on the side of the car that is struck,
at the start of an accident with high
vehicle deceleration or acceleration
acting in a lateral direction, e.g. a
side impact,
if there is the prospect of supplement
ing the protective potential of the seat
belt,
independently of the front airbags be
ing deployed,
independently of the belt tensioner,
in situations excluding a rollover, Un
less high vehicle deceleration in the
transverse direction is detected.
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