Knowing Your Vehicle
Air Bag – Supplemental Restraint System
In other words, just because your vehicle is damaged
and even if it is totally unusable, don’t be surprised
that the air bag(s) did not inflate.
What Your Air Bag System Does
Your vehicle is equipped with a dual Supplemental
Restraint System (SRS), which includes an air bag for
the driver (standard) and another air bag for the front
passenger (optional).
The Importance of Using Safety Belts
There are four very important reasons to use safety
belts even with an air bag system, they:
•
Help keep you in the proper position (away from the
air bag) when it inflates.
What Your Air Bag System Does Not Do
•
Reduce the risk of harm in rollover, side or rear
impact collisions, because an air bag is not designed
to inflate in such situations.
Reduce the risk of harm in frontal collisions that are
not severe enough to activate the supplemental
restraint system.
The air bag system is designed to supplement or add to
the protection provided to properly belted occupants in
moderate to severe frontal collisions. It is not a substi-
tute for the driver’s or front passenger’s safety belt and
it does not provide restraint to the lower body.
•
•
Reduce the risk of being thrown from your vehicle.
Why Didn’t My Air Bag Go Off in a Collision?
There are many types of accidents in which the air bag
would not be expected to provide additional protection.
These include side or rear impacts, rollovers, and sec-
ond or third impacts in multiple-impact accidents as
well as low speed impacts.
Remember: air bags are only designed to inflate when
the impact would throw the occupant into the air bags
WARNING - Air Bags & Safety
Belts
Even in vehicles with air bags, you and your
passengers must always wear the safety belts
provided in order to minimize the risk and
severity of injury in the event of a collision or
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generally from a little to the left to a little to the
rollover.
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| Categories | Kia Manuals, Kia Rio Manuals |
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| Model Year | 2005 |
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