Mercury Mountaineer 2005 User Manual download pdf (Page 109)

Children and airbags

Children must always be properly

restrained. Accident statistics

suggest that children are safer when

properly restrained in the rear

seating positions than in the front

seating position. Failure to follow

these instructions may increase the

risk of injury in a collision.

Airbags can kill or injure a

child in a child seat.

NEVER place a rear-facing child

seat in front of an active airbag. If

you must use a forward-facing

child seat in the front seat, move

the seat all the way back.

How does the air bag supplemental restraint system work?

The air bag SRS is designed to

activate when the vehicle sustains

longitudinal deceleration sufficient

to cause the sensors to close an

electrical circuit that initiates air

bag inflation. The fact that the air

bags did not inflate in a collision

does not mean that something is

wrong with the system. Rather, it

means the forces were not of the

type sufficient to cause activation.

Front air bags are designed to

inflate in frontal and near-frontal collisions, not rollover, side-impact, or

rear-impacts unless the collision causes sufficient longitudinal

deceleration.

2005 Montego (mgo)

Owners Guide (post-2002-fmt)

USA_English (fus)

Seating and Safety Restraints

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Mercury Mountaineer 2005 User Manual Page 109