2016 Kia Soul: airbags did not deploy in a crash

Filed Nov 14, 2025 · Airbags · TX · crash · 1 injury

Airbags did not deploy

Filed Oct 15, 2024 · Airbags · OR · crash · 2 injuries

Steering wheel airbag did not deploy during an accident. The side aibags did deployed. Car was going 55mph and colided into another car with front passenger side took majority of the force.

Filed Mar 22, 2024 · Electrical · 150,000 miles · VA · crash · 1 injury

The contact owns a 2016 Kia Soul. The contact stated that while driving at approximately 40 MPH, the battery, steering, and ABS warning lights were illuminated. The steering wheel then seized. The contact stopped the vehicle in the left lane of the highway when another vehicle sideswiped the passenger side of her vehicle and fled the scene. The air bags did not deploy. The contact experienced sore body pains, but medical attention was not received. No police report was filed. The contact activated the hazard lights, and the vehicle shut off after an hour of idling. VDOT arrived on the scene and attempted to jumpstart the vehicle, but the vehicle was unable to restart. The vehicle was towed to the dealer, where it was diagnosed that the alternator and battery needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was approximately 150,000.

Filed Dec 16, 2020 · Airbags, Body · 35,911 miles · OH · crash

The crash at about 2:30am early tuesday morning on nov. 24, 2020, on her way home from her nearby 2nd shift job, my wife's 2016 kia sol was hit hard on the driver's side by a car being pursued by police. Luckily, and possibly because my wife is short and sits high, she appears uninjured although visibly shaken and very nervous about night driving. My wife had pulled her car over to the right side of the 4+ lane road when she heard sirens. While pulled over with the car running and her foot on the brake, the perpetrator's vehicle crashed into the driver's side and pushed her car several feet further to the right, crumpling the doors and breaking off the left rear wheel and suspension from the impact. The police report showed that the perpetrator's vehicle approached her car from the front left, but the vehicle hit the very short kia squarely and only in the two driver's side doors with no damage to the front or rear fenders. Clearly not sideswiped where the entire side would have been damaged. Allstate insurance totaled the car and photos from the accident scene and towing yard are attached, as is the police report. No airbags deployed! None of the kia's airbags deployed. We bought the car new in late 2015 and it has been completely serviced since then at the original kia dealer. They recently updated the car's computer under a kia recall. On dec. 4, 2020, I contacted the kia consumer assistance center (kaylee c at 949‑468‑4689) and asked why the airbags failed. After looking at photos I sent her and from the copart lot, she quickly said the car was "sideswiped and not hit hard enough to deploy the airbags". Her response was protecting kia line as any review of the photos shows that he car was hit from the side very hard and not sideswiped. I ask that the federal safety agency investigate this incident as it's unlikely that only my vehicle has this potentially fatal flaw.

Filed Nov 24, 2020 · Airbags · 120,000 miles · FL · crash · 1 injury

On october 28, 2020 I had a box truck slam the brakes in front of me causing me to rear end them going approximately 25/30 MPH. The front of my kia was smashed into the engine and airbags did not deploy. I have sustained major long term injuries due to the airbag not deploying.

Filed Mar 8, 2020 · Airbags · 751,000 miles · FL · crash

Front impacted another vehicle at 35-40 MPH and air bags did not deploy. This happened 3/7/2020 at 3:45 in port charolette fl. This occurred on route 776 and toledo blade

Filed Dec 23, 2019 · Airbags · 32,000 miles · CA · crash · 1 injury

Driving to work on freeway going about 15-20mph when all of a sudden I was blind-sided by a chevy silverado truck going 50-60mph. The initial impact was my rear passenger side door. Absolutely no airbag went off on that side. The impact knocked me across two lanes of the freeways oncoming traffic where I was hit again on driver's side. The steering wheel bag went off after the 2nd impact. The driver's side curtain airbags did not go off. Is this the car you have a 5-star crash ratings? My car was totaled. I incurred a severe concussion and multiple fractures that requires surgery.

Filed Jun 18, 2019 · Airbags · 27,000 miles · KS · crash

Daughter was in an accident on a highway driving at approximately 60 MPH in her 2016 kia soul when she rear ended a suburban after it was cut off by another vehicle. The front end damage was extensive and her car was totaled and shockingly, the air bags did not deploy.

Filed May 8, 2019 · Airbags · 60,000 miles · NH · crash · 1 injury

Tl* the contact owned a 2016 kia soul. While driving 30 MPH, the vehicle skid and crashed. The air bags failed to deploy. The contact sustained neck and back injuries that required medical attention. A police report was filed. The vehicle was towed to a tow lot and deemed destroyed. The vehicle was not taken to a dealer. The cause of the failure was not determined. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 60,000.

Filed Jan 8, 2019 · Airbags, Driver assistance · 30,000 miles · GA · crash

I was in a car accident a few months ago that involved me leaving the road and that I was completely airborne landing on the other side of the embankment my air bags did not deploy under the force of my car going airborne and landing so hard that my underside of my car was torn up needing almost 6,000 dollars in repairs. Including breaking my oil filter off of the car. I was told that my airbags should have completely deployed. But they did not. I really am scared that if I was in another accident they will not deploy when needed to save my or my families life.

Filed Dec 2, 2018 · Airbags · 30,000 miles · WV · crash

On highway in rainy conditions hydroplaned in to concrete barrier wall at about 70 MPH first impact on drivers front corner near headlight. Airbags never deployed.