Ess€niial Safety Equipment
NOTE
Your Mazda is equipped
with
LATCH
lower anchors for allachment of
specially designed LATCH
child-restraint systens in $e outboard
rear seats. Anachment of LATCH
child restralnt sysiems should all fil
the oulboard
positions.
A child
restrainl system with LAICH
anachments
cannor
be
installed in
the
rear center
positionunless
the seat
belts are used
instead. When
using
these anchors to secure a
child-resiraini syslem, refer to
"LATCH Child-Restraint Systens"
(paze
2-21).
A
wanlrnrc
Holding
a Chia white the Vehicte
it
Moing:
Hodins a chiu in
rour
atms vhile
tha whicle is noins is ext.enelr
dangercus. No nutter ho$, strong the
person
nut be,he or she cannot hou
onto a chiU i asudden stop or
tolision and it coud res ltin
seious injury or death to the
child
or
other o.cupants. Ewn
in a moalerate
accident, the child mar be exposed
to
ab bas
Iorces
that couA nsult in
serious injury or daath to the child,
or the chiu nat be slanned into the
adult, injuing
the adult.
Altrolt
secuft a chid in a
ptupe.
c hild-re straint s
r
ste n.
Child Restraint
I Child Restraint Precautions
Statistics confirm that the rear seai is the
best
place
for all children up io 12
years
of age-tbe more so
with
a supplenental
restraint system
(air
bagt.
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One BeIt- One Passenger:
Using o e seat belt|br more than
o
e
person
ata tine is dangercus. A
seat belt used i,t this Ha! can't
spread
the impactforces
ploperry
onil the
twopassengers couu be
crushed together
attd seriouslr
injured ot even
ki
ed. Neret use one
beltlor nore than one
person
at a
2-20
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