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Essential Safety Equipment
SRS Air Bags
*Some models.
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.)
SRS
equipment
Types of collision
A severe frontal/near frontal collision A severe side collision
*2
A rear collision
Front
seat belt
pretensioner
X
*1
(both sides) X
*1
(impact side only)
No air bag and front seat
belt pretensioner will be
activated in a rear collision.
Driver air
bag
X
Front
passenger
air bag
X
*1
Side air bag
*
X
*1
(impact side only)
Curtain air
bag
*
X (impact side only)
X : The SRS air bag equipment is designed to deploy in a collision.
*1 (With Passenger Air Bag Deactivation Switch)
The front passenger front and side air bags and the seat belt pretensioner are designed to deploy depending on
the status of the front passenger air bag deactivation switch.
*2 (With Side/Curtain Air Bags)
In a side collision, the seat belt pretensioners and the side/curtain air bags deploy (only on the side in which the
collision occurs).
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