Curtain Airbag - Kia Sorento 2006 Owner's Manual

WARNING
• The front seat passenger
airbag is much larger than the
steering wheel airbag and
inflates with considerably more
force. It can seriously hurt or
kill a passenger who is not in
the proper position and wear-
ing the safety belt properly. The
front passengers
always move their seat as far
back as practical and sit back
in their seat.
• It is essential that the front pas-
senger always wears their safe-
ty belts, even when the vehicle
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 pas-
senger is not wearing the safe-
ty belts, they will be directly in
front of the storage compart-
ment when deployment occurs.
In that situation, 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 airbag
deployment, such a misposi-
tioned occupant would be like-
ly to suffer severe injury or
death.
• Never allow children, pregnant
should
women or weak persons to sit
in the front passenger seat. Do
not put child restraint system
on the front passenger's seat
either. They may be seriously
injured by the airbag inflation
when airbag 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
deployment of the airbag or
could hit your body at high
speed and cause severe bodi-
ly injury and even death.
interfere with the
KNOWING YOUR VEHICLE
SRS
AIRBAG
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Curtain airbag

Curtain airbags are located along
both sides of the roof rails above the
front and rear doors.
They are designed to help protect the
heads of the front seat occupants and
the rear outboard seat occupants in
certain side impact collisions.
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