FORESTER (72F) NA (E) A8040B
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Seat, seatbelt and SRS airbags
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The vehicle strikes a tele-
phone pole or similar ob-
ject.
The vehicle slides under
a truck’s load bed.
The vehicle sustains an
oblique offset frontal im-
pact.
n Examples of the types of accidents in which the SRS frontal
airbag will basically not deploy.
The SRS frontal airbag is basically not designed to deploy if the
vehicle is struck from side or from behind, or if it rolls onto its side or
roof, or if it is involved in a low-speed frontal collision.
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The vehicle is struck from
behind.
The vehicle is struck from
the side.
The vehicle rolls onto its
side or roof.
In an accident where the vehicle is impacted more than once, the
SRS frontal airbag deploys only once on the first impact.
Example: In the case of a double collision, first with another vehicle,
then against a concrete wall in immediate succession, the SRS frontal
airbag is activated on the first impact but not on the second.