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Frontal airbags (driver and right front passenger)
are not intended to inflate during vehicle
rollovers, rear impacts, or in many side impacts.
Your vehicle may or may not have roof-mounted
side impact airbags and a rollover sensor.
See Airbag System on page 75. These
roof-mounted “rollover capable” side impact
airbags are intended to inflate in moderate to
severe side crashes, and during a rollover.
They may also inflate in some frontal crashes.
Both rollover capable side impact airbags
will inflate if the crash severity is above the
system’s designed “threshold level.” The threshold
level can vary with specific vehicle design.
Side impact airbags are not intended to inflate
in rear impacts.
Both side impact airbags will deploy when either
side of the vehicle is struck. If your vehicle
does not have a right front passenger seat and a
rear seat, only the driver’s frontal airbag will
deploy in a frontal impact.
In any particular crash, no one can say whether
an airbag should have inflated simply because
of the damage to a vehicle or because of what
the repair costs were. For frontal airbags,
inflation is determined by what the vehicle hits,
the angle of the impact, and how quickly the
vehicle slows down. For side impact airbags,
inflation is determined by the location and severity
of the impact.
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