Subaru WRX & WRX STI Manuals 2015 WRX & WRX STI Owner's Manual | Page 78

Seat, seatbelt and SRS airbags/*SRS airbag (Supplemental Restraint System airbag)

! 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

frontal airbags are designed not to deploy
in most cases 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.

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First impact
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.

The driver’s and front passenger’s SRS

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

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be activated on the second impact.

& SRS side airbag and SRS
curtain airbag

The SRS side airbag is stored in the door
side of each front seat seatback.
In a moderate to severe side impact
collision, the SRS side airbag on the
impacted side of the vehicle deploys
between the occupant and the door panel
and supplements the seatbelt by reducing
the impact on the occupant’s chest and
waist. The SRS side airbag operates only
for front seat occupants.
The SRS curtain airbag on each side of
the cabin is stored in the roof side
(between the front pillar and a point over
the rear seat).
In a moderate to severe side impact
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