Toyota Rav4 Operation Manual page 48

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CAUTION
A driver or front passenger too close
to the steering wheel or dashboard
during airbag deployment can
killed or seriously injured. Toyota
strongly recommends that:
"
The driver sit as far back as pos-
sible from the steering wheel while
still maintaining control of the ve-
hicle.
"
The front passenger sit as far back
as possible from the dashboard.
"
All vehicle occupants be properly
restrained using the available seat
belts.
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be
This indicator comes on when the igni-
tion key is turned to the "ACC" or
"ON" position. It goes off after about
6 seconds. This means the SRS airbags
are operating properly.
The SRS airbag warning light
monitors the airbag sensor assembly, in-
flator, warning light, interconnecting wiring
and power sources. (For details, see "Ser-
vice reminder indicators and warning buzz-
ers" in chapter 1- 5.)
'98 Rav4U
The SRS airbag system is designed to
activate in response to a severe frontal
impact within the shaded area between
the arrows in the illustration.
There may be the case that the SRS air-
system bags will not activate with such an impact
in which the occupant wearing the seat
belt correctly would not get serious injury.
The SRS airbags will deploy if the severi-
ty of the impact is above the designed
threshold level, comparable to an approxi-
mate 24 km/h (15 mph) collision in the
U.S.A. and 30 km/h (18 mph) collision in
Canada when impacting straight into a
fixed barrier that does not move or de-
form.