Knowing your vehicle
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Just before impact, drivers often • Front airbags do not generally • Airbags may not inflate if the vehi-
brake heavily. Such heavy braking inflate in rollover accidents. cle collides with objects such as
lowers the front portion of the vehi- utility poles or trees, where the
cle and the vehicle dive under a point of impact is concentrated to
vehicle with a higher ground clear- one area and not the main body
ance. Airbags may not inflate in structures, so that the full force of
this "underride" situation because the impact is not transmitted to the
deceleration forces are so radically sensors.
altered by such "underride" colli-
sions.
However, side airbags may inflate
during a rollover, depending on the
precise impacts which the side of
the vehicle experienced during a
rollover.
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| Categories | Kia Manuals, Kia Sportage Manuals |
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| Model Year | 2006 |
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| Copyright | Attribution Non-commercial |
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