KIA Sportage 2008 - Manual (Page 81)

Knowing your vehicle
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• In this case, the front airbags do
not provide protection, since they
would instantaneously inflate and
deflate while the occupants were
moving away from the front
airbags.
• Front airbags are also not general-
ly designed to deploy in side
impact collisions because occu-
pants are moving sideways ad not
forward into the front airbags.
However, side or curtain airbags
are designed to inflate in side
impacts depending on the intensi-
ty, vehicle speed and angles of
impact.
• In a slant or angled collision, the
force of impact may direct the
occupants in a direction between
the front and side airbags, and
thus the sensors may not deploy
any airbags.
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