Ess€ntial Safety
Equipment
I Installing
Child-Restraint Slstems
Accident statistics reveal
that achild is
safer in the rear sea1. The front
passengeas
seat is cl$fly rhe worst
choice for any
child under 12, and with
rearfacing
child-restraint systems il is
clearly unsafe due
to airbags.
Some child-restraint systems now
come
with tethers and
therefore must be
instdled
on lhe seais thai take tethers to
be effective. In your
Mazda. tethered
child-restraint systems
can only be
accommodated
in tbe three
positions
on
Sorne child-restraint systems also
emplo]
specially designed LAfCH attachmenls;
refer to "LATCH
Child-Restraint
Stslems"
(page
2 27).
Awtnu^tc
Tethercd C hia-Resttuint
S$tems
wo*
Onb on Rear Seat:
Insto
ation of a tether equipped
chiu-rcstraint
ststem in the
fuo
t
Ntsenger\
seat delbats the safetr
des;gn ofthe
srsten and
wi
result
in an incleased
chonce ofseious
inju.r
if
the chiaaestruint srsten
soes foNad
without benefit of
being tethercd. Place
tether equipped
.hild-restruint slstens wherc
therc
Awenumc
Seating Positiotr t!,ith
S le Ab Bag:
A owing anrone to lean
orer or
against the
front
door is dangercus.
If the
yehicle
b equrrped h,ith
side
air boes,
the inpact of an infuting
side ab bag could cause
serious
Wury
or death to the percon.
Chiuren arc
norc likelr to sleepin
the vehicle; when
ther do,ther
aR
nofe at sk in the
ffont
passenge.'s
seat that has a side air
bag because
the! nu!
slump owr i,tto th.
poth
oI
the seatba.k-nounted air
bag. If a
chiucan't be seated
in the rear, do
not a oh, the chid to lean
ovat or
agdinst
the
front
door, eve if the
chid is seated in a chiA-ftstraint
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