Kia Rio 2006 Owner's Manual page 87

Knowing Your Vehicle Knowing Your Vehicle
WARNING
• The front seat passenger air bag is much
larger than the steering wheel air bag
and inflates with considerably more
force. It can seriously hurt or kill a
passenger who is not in the proper posi-
tion and wearing the safety belt properly.
The front passengers should always
move their seat as far back as practical
and sit back in their seat.
• It is essential that the front passengers
always wear their safety belts when
vehicle is in motion, even when the vehi-
cle is moving in a parking lot or up a
driveway into garage.
• If the driver brakes the vehicle heavily
prior to an impact, unbelted occupants
will be thrown forward. If the front
passenger is not wearing the safety belts,
they will be directly in front of the air bags
when deployment occurs. In that situa-
tion, serious injury or death is possible.
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• Never allow front passenger to put their
hands, feet or face on or close to the
instrument panel. In the event of air bag
deployment, such a mispositioned occu-
pant would be likely to suffer severe
injury or death.
• Never allow children/old and feeble
persons/pregnant women to sit on the
front passenger's seat. They may be seri-
ously injured by the air bag inflation
when air bag deploys.
• Do not put objects or stickers on the
instrument panel. Do not apply any
accessory to the front windshield. Do
not install aftermarket mirrors or acces-
sories on the factory-installed rearview
mirror. Any of these could interfere with
the deployment of the air bag or could
hit your body at high speed and cause
severe bodily injury and even death.