Safety Features of Your Vehicle

Why didn't my air bag deploy in a collision?

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Conditions for airbag deployment and non-deployment.

There are many types of collisions in which the airbags are not expected to deploy. The airbags are designed to provide supplemental protection.

These include rear impacts, secondary or tertiary collisions in multiple impacts, and low-speed impacts.

Test yourself

A quick Kia Optima DL3 quiz: every answer comes with an explanation and a link to the manual page.