KIA Sportage 2007 - Manual (Page 82)

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Knowing your vehicle
• Just before impact, drivers often
brake heavily. Such heavy braking
lowers the front portion of the vehi-
cle and the vehicle dive under a
vehicle with a higher ground clear-
ance. Airbags may not inflate in
this "underride" situation because
deceleration forces are so radically
altered by such "underride" colli-
sions.
• Front airbags do not generally
inflate in rollover accidents.
However, side airbags may inflate
during a rollover, depending on the
precise impacts which the side of
the vehicle experienced during a
rollover.
• Airbags may not inflate if the vehi-
cle collides with objects such as
utility poles or trees, where the
point of impact is concentrated to
one area and not the main body
structures, so that the full force of
the impact is not transmitted to the
sensors.
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