Safety features of your vehicle – KIA Rondo 2009 User Manual

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Safety features of your vehicle

• Frontal air bags are not designed to

inflate in rear collisions, because occu-
pants are moved backward by the
force of the impact. In this case, inflat-
ed air bags would not be able to pro-
vide any additional benefit.

• Front air bags may not inflate in side

impact collisions, because occupants
move to the direction of the collision,
and thus in side impacts, frontal air bag
deployment would not provide addi-
tional occupant protection.
However, side or curtain air bags may
inflate depending on the intensity, vehi-
cle speed and angles of impact.

• In a slant or angled collision, the force

of impact may direct the occupants in a
direction where the air bags would not
be able to provide any additional bene-
fit, and thus the sensors may not
deploy any air bags.

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