Kia Sportage 2008 User Manual download pdf (Page 65)

Knowing your vehicle

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The importance of using

safety belts

There are four very important rea-

sons to use safety belts even with an

airbag supplemental restraint sys-

tem. They:

• help keep you in the proper posi-

tion (away from the airbag) when it

inflates.

• reduce the risk of harm in rollover,

side impact (vehicles not equipped

with side and curtain airbags) or

rear impact collisions, because an

airbag is not designed to inflate in

such situations and even a side

curtain airbag is designed to inflate

only in certain side impact colli-

sions.

• reduce the risk of harm in frontal or

side collisions which are not

severe enough to actuate the

airbag supplemental restraint sys-

tem.

• reduce the risk of being ejected

from your vehicle.

Your vehicle’s Supplemental

Restraint System Control Module

is equipped with a recording

device that may record the use or

status of the safety belt restraint

system by the driver and front

passenger in certain collisions.

WARNING - Airbags &

safety belts

• Even in vehicles with air bags,

you and your passengers

must always wear the safety

belts provided in order to min-

imize the risk and severity of

injury in the event of a colli-

sion or rollover.

•Always wear your safety belt.

It can help keep you away

from the air bags during heavy

braking just before a collision.

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• If occupants are not wearing

safety belts or correctly seat-

ed, they cannot be fully pro-

tected, and thus face a greater

risk of serious injury or death.

•Driver’s and front passenger’s

airbag are designed to inflate

only in certain frontal colli-

sion, and side and curtain

airbags are designed to inflate

in certain side impacts.

Frontal airbags are not

designed to provide protec-

tion in side impacts, rear

impacts

, rollovers, or less

severe frontal collisions. They

will not provide protection

from later impacts in a multi-

impact collision.

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