Vehicle seat assembly and vehicle

A vehicle seat assembly for mounting within a vehicle cabin of a vehicle—comprising,

• a vehicle seat including a seat backrest and a seat base, the seat backrest connected to the seat base so as to be movable relative to the seat base in a front-rear direction of the vehicle such that the vehicle seat is capable of facing a front or a rear of the vehicle;
• and
• a side airbag device arranged on a side frame of a seat backrest frame of the vehicle seat and including
• a side airbag configured to be deployed between the vehicle seat and a side wall of the vehicle when in an inflated and expanded state, such that the side airbag is deployed between a passenger seated in the vehicle seat and a side wall of the vehicle regardless of whether the vehicle seat faces the front or the rear of the vehicle, so as to provide protection for the passenger,
• wherein the side airbag includes a first side airbag and a second side airbag, and upon deployment the first side airbag is positioned in front of the second side airbag in the front-rear direction of the vehicle, such that if the vehicle seat faces the front of the vehicle, the deployed first side airbag provides protection for a passenger seated in the vehicle seat, and if the vehicle seat faces the rear of the vehicle, the deployed second side airbag provides protection for a passenger seated in the vehicle seat, and
• wherein the first side airbag and the second side airbag are in fluid communication with each other.