Subaru Outback Manuals 2012 Outback Owner's Manual | Page 78

1-54 Seat, seatbelt and SRS airbags
! Examples of the types of accidents in which the driver’ s / driver’ s and front passenger’ s SRS frontal airbag( s) will basically not deploy. to deploy if the vehicle is struck from the side or from behind, or if it rolls onto its side or roof, or if it is involved in a lowspeed frontal collision.
WARNING
If the vehicle is damaged in an accident but the SRS frontal airbag does not deploy, contact your SUBARU dealer as soon as possible.
! SRS side airbag and SRS curtain airbag operation
The driver’ s and front passenger’ s SRS frontal airbags are designed basically not
1)
First impact
2)
Second impact
In an accident where the vehicle is impacted more than once, the driver’ s and / or front passenger’ s SRS frontal airbag( s) will deploy 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, once either or both of the driver’ s and front passenger’ s SRS frontal airbags is / are activated on the first impact, it / they will not be activated on the second impact.
The driver’ s and front passenger’ s SRS side airbags and SRS curtain airbags deploy independently of each other because each has its own impact sensor. Therefore, they may not both deploy in the same accident. Also, the SRS side airbag and SRS curtain airbag deploys independently of the driver’ s and front passenger’ s SRS frontal airbags in the steering