FORD 2000 Focus - Manual (Page 99)

Seating and safety restraints
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Children and air bags
For additional important safety
information, read all information on
safety restraints in this guide.
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 positions. Failure to
follow these instructions may
increase the risk of injury in a
collision.
Air bags can kill or injure a
child in a child seat.
NEVER place a rearĆfacing child
seat in front of an active air bag.
If you must use a forwardĆfacing
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
sufficient longitudinal deceleration
to cause the sensors to close an
electrical circuit that initiates air
bag inflation.