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Safety features of your Kia Airbag — Advanced Supplemental Restraint System
* The actual airbags in the vehicle may
differ from the illustration.
Side and/or curtain airbags are designed
to inflate when an impact is detected by
side collision sensors depending on sev
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eral factors, including the severity of
impact resulting from a side impact colli
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sion.
Also, the side and curtain airbags are
designed to inflate when a rollover is
detected by a rollover sensor.
Although the front airbags (driver's and
front passenger's air bags) are primarily
designed to inflate in frontal collisions,
they may inflate in other types of colli
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sions if the front impact sensors detect a
sufficient frontal force in another type of
impact.
Similarly, although side and curtain air
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bags are designed to inflate in certain
side impact collisions, they may inflate in
other types of collisions where a side
force is detected by the sensors. In addi
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tion, side airbag and/or curtain airbags
may inflate if rollover sensors indicate
the possibility of a rollover occurring
(even if none actually occurs) or in other
situations, including when the vehicle is
tilted while being towed.
Even if side and/or curtain airbags do
not provide impact protection in a roll
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over, they will deploy to prevent ejection
of occupants, especially those who are
restrained with seat belts.
If the vehicle chassis is impacted by
bumps or objects on unimproved roads,
the airbags may deploy. Drive carefully
on unimproved roads or on surfaces not
designed for vehicle traffic to prevent
unintended airbag deployment.
Airbag non-inflation conditions
僅 Airbags may not deploy in certain
low-speed collisions where the airbag
would not add any benefit beyond the
protection already offered by the seat
belts.
僅 Front airbags are not designed to
inflate in rear collisions, because
occupants are moved backward by
the force of the impact. In this case,
inflated airbags would not be able to
provide any additional benefit.
僅 Front airbags may not inflate in side
impact collisions, because passen
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gers move in the direction of the colli
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sion. Thus, in side impacts, frontal
airbag deployment would not provide
additional occupant protection.
僅 In an angled collision, the force of
impact may direct the occupants in a
direction where the airbags would not
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