AIRBAGS ? had a crash and airbags didnt go off

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I think some people are taking things out of context or believe things that are not quite true.

An air bag is used as a last resort to stop serious injury. Unlike america we are required by law to use seatbelts, because of that, the americans air bags will deploy a lot sooner than our cars. A lot of things that influence us are american based so that is possibly where some of the problem has come from.

An air bag is a violent thing when deployed and can cause it own list of injuries if deployed incorrectly or even seating position can have an affect.
A air bag is deployed basically by an explosion of gunpowder to inflate the bag, this gun power explosion can cause hearing problems (although the accident noise is most of the time louder) there can be burns associated with it deploying due to the hot gases and last of all the impact of the bag hitting the occupant can cause injurys.

The driver walking away from the accident shows that the functions of the cars safety items did their jobs. because the driver has no serious injurys, there is a good chance the air bags were not needed in this accident, which is what i think Aeron was leading to with his line of questioning regarding damage to the car. Only Ford engineers would probably be able to determine whether the air bags should have deployed, but we probably know what their answer would be.

Glad to hear you got out of the accident ok, sorry to hear about the damage