Subaru Forester: 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) are not designed to deploy in most cases

The driver’s and front passenger’s SRS frontal airbags are not designed to deploy in most of the following cases.

• If the vehicle is struck from the side or from behind.
• If the vehicle rolls onto its side or roof.
• If the vehicle is involved in a low-speed frontal collision.

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.