Side Impact Air Bag - Kia Sorento Owner's Manual

Safety features of your vehicle

Side impact air bag

(if equipped)
❈ The actual air bags in the vehicle may dif-
fer from the illustration.
Your vehicle is equipped with a side
impact air bag in each front seat.
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The purpose of the air bag is to pro-
vide the vehicle's driver and/or the
front passenger with additional pro-
tection than that offered by the seat
belt alone.
The side impact air bags are
designed to deploy only during cer-
tain side-impact collisions, depend-
ing on the crash severity, angle,
speed and point of impact. The side
air bags are not designed to deploy
in all side impact situations.
The side impact air bags do not only
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deploy on the side of the impact but
also on the opposite side.
✽ ✽ NOTICE -
Also, both side of the side impact air
bags deploy in certain rollover situa-
tions.
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Do not allow the passengers to
lean their heads or bodies onto
doors, put their arms on the
doors, stretch their arms out of
the window, or place objects
between the doors and passen-
gers when they are seated on
seats equipped with side and/or
curtain air bags.
• The side impact air bag is sup-
if equipped with
rollover sensor
* 1 Only vehicle equipped with rollover sensor.
WARNING
WARNING
plemental to the driver's and
the passenger's seat belt sys-
tems and is not a substitute for
them. Therefore your seat belts
must be worn at all times whilst
the vehicle is in motion. The air
bags deploy only in certain
side impact or rollover* 1 condi-
tions severe enough to cause
significant injury to the vehicle
occupants.
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